Who we are

brightsolid began life in 1995 as Scotland Online, and has built an enviable reputation as a first-class internet services provider.

brightsolid is a business critical ISP. We manage our clients’ information availability and online presence through hosting, internet access, applications and business continuity products and services supporting a large number of corporate and public sector customers.

brightsolid has a strategic partnership with SunGard Availability Services, a global leader in disaster recovery services. This enables brightsolid to provide unique business continuity and IT disaster recovery services.

The company has significant expertise in the digitisation and management of records in the fast-growing online family history market. It manages ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk, a partnership between the General Register Office for Scotland, the National Archives of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon. In 2008, brightsolid acquired findmypast.com, which operates an online family history site based in England.

brightsolid has several contracts in this field, including the contract to digitise, license and publish the 1911 census from The National Archive in Kew. 

brightsolid operates its own data centre. It’s underpinned by a resilient and secure network with dual location and disaster recovery options. Designed and built for brightsolid in the last few years we don’t face the legacy challenges of older data centres. 

brightsolid has an impressive list of partners. brightsolid are a MicrosoftGold Partner and an Oracle Partner and our disaster recovery services are provided in partnership with SunGard, a global leader in this field. 

At brightsolid we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously.  We are ISO14001 certified, which is the standard designed to help  organisations minimise how their operations negatively affect the  environment. 

brightsolid is a private limited company jointly owned between D. C. Thomson and Noble Grossart Investments based in Scotland with over 50 staff in offices in Dundee, Edinburgh and London.  brightsolid appointed its new Chief Executive Officer, Chris van der Kuyl, in October 2007.

 

brightsolid is registered in Scotland

Company Registration No: SC161678
Registered Office:
Gateway House, 
Luna Place, 
Dundee Technology Park, 
Dundee,
DD2 1TP

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