<s>
Bright	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
is	O
a	O
developer	O
of	O
software	O
for	O
deploying	O
and	O
managing	O
high-performance	B-Architecture
(	O
HPC	O
)	O
clusters	O
,	O
Kubernetes	B-General_Concept
clusters	O
,	O
and	O
OpenStack	B-Application
private	O
clouds	O
in	O
on-prem	O
data	B-Operating_System
centers	I-Operating_System
as	O
well	O
as	O
in	O
the	O
public	O
cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bright	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
by	O
Matthijs	O
van	O
Leeuwen	O
in	O
2009	O
,	O
who	O
spun	O
the	O
company	O
out	O
of	O
ClusterVision	O
,	O
which	O
he	O
had	O
co-founded	O
with	O
Alex	O
Ninaber	O
and	O
Arijan	O
Sauer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
left	O
Compusys	O
in	O
2002	O
to	O
start	O
ClusterVision	O
in	O
the	O
Netherlands	O
,	O
after	O
determining	O
there	O
was	O
a	O
growing	O
market	O
for	O
building	O
and	O
managing	O
supercomputer	B-Architecture
clusters	O
using	O
off-the-shelf	O
hardware	O
components	O
and	O
open	O
source	O
software	O
,	O
tied	O
together	O
with	O
their	O
own	O
customized	O
scripts	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2009	O
,	O
Bright	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
was	O
spun	O
out	O
of	O
ClusterVision	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ClusterVisionOS	O
was	O
renamed	O
Bright	O
Cluster	O
Manager	O
,	O
and	O
van	O
Leeuwen	O
was	O
named	O
Bright	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
’s	O
CEO	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2014	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
announced	O
Bright	O
OpenStack	B-Application
,	O
software	O
to	O
deploy	O
,	O
provision	O
,	O
and	O
manage	O
OpenStack-based	O
private	O
cloud	O
infrastructures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
December	O
2018	O
,	O
version	O
8.2	O
was	O
released	O
,	O
which	O
introduced	O
support	O
for	O
the	O
ARM64	B-Architecture
architecture	O
,	O
edge	O
capabilities	O
to	O
build	O
clusters	O
spread	O
out	O
over	O
many	O
different	O
geographical	O
locations	O
,	O
improved	O
workload	O
accounting	O
&	O
reporting	O
features	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
many	O
improvements	O
to	O
Bright	O
's	O
integration	O
with	O
Kubernetes	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bright	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
was	O
covered	O
by	O
Software	O
Magazine	O
and	O
Yahoo	O
!	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2016	O
,	O
Bright	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
was	O
awarded	O
a	O
€1.5	O
M	O
Horizon	O
2020	O
SME	O
Instrument	O
grant	O
from	O
the	O
European	O
Commission	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Bright	B-General_Concept
Computing	I-General_Concept
was	O
one	O
of	O
only	O
33	O
grant	O
recipients	O
from	O
960	O
submitted	O
proposals	O
.	O
</s>
