Storage
British Airways I360 Reaches Unprecedented Heights, Helped By Seagate Skyhawk
British Airways i360 is a 162-meter (531 ft.) tall observation tower on the seafront of Brighton on the UK?s south coast that opened in August 2016 on the site of the famous beach town?s historic West Pier. Conceived and designed by Marks Barfield Architects, the creators of the London Eye, British Airways i360 is the world?s tallest moving observation tower and the world?s first vertical cable car. Brighton CCTV selected Seagate as an additional partner for the project to deliver its high-capacity SkyHawk storage, purpose-built for surveillance systems with Seagate?s ImagePerfect firmware.
KC Police Plan To Outfit Officers With Body Cameras As Price Tag Reaches $6M
Kansas City police brass say their plan to equip hundreds of officers with body cameras as a new estimate puts initial costs at roughly $6 million. That $6 million price tag is expected to cover the initial start-up costs, equipment upgrades, storage expenses and hiring additional workers to manage the effort and to respond open records request for the video recordings. Officials have not identified a sustainable funding source and said it could take three years before officers can begin wearing the recording devices. The police board must approve the use of body cameras.
Promise Technology’s Vess A-Series NVR Certified With Bosch VMS 7.0 Software
Promise Technology, a leading developer of open storage platforms for video surveillance, announced that its Vess A-Series Network Video Recorders (NVRs) are certified for use with Bosch Video Management System software (BVMS). Certifying Vess A-Series NVRs with the BVMS strengthens the companies’ partnership and offers customers an optimized solution that has been tested to deliver the highest levels of performance and reliability. Extensive documentation of the testing results is available and ensures that customers can fully leverage the performance offered by the integrated Vess A-Series and the BVMS solution while also reducing deployment and management costs by having the VMS and surveillance storage on a single device.
Video Surveillance Storage Market: Global Industry Analysis and Forecast 2016 – 2022
Use of video surveillance in organizations across each vertical is growing, mounting up new challenges related to handling surveillance systems and storing the exponentially increasing volume of raw video footage. Many of the large enterprises use more than 100 cameras on an average, which are functioning 24*7 around the clock?with no end in sight. The number of surveillance cameras and the worth of video analytics are only projected to grow and so is the need for video surveillance storage. Commercial expansion triggers maximum investment in video surveillance; higher capacity storage media is a vital prerequisite for these system upgrades. With the advancement in storage technologies over the last decade and introduction of IP cameras, the process of video surveillance became simpler and the demand for video surveillance storage amplified.
ASUSTOR Releases Surveillance Center 2.7 Beta; Highly Efficient Cloud Surveillance Experience
ASUSTOR Inc., a leading innovator and provider of network storage solutions, has announced the launch of the Surveillance Center 2.7 Beta, featuring comprehensive support for ADM 3.0 Internet Passthrough connections, creating a more agile and efficient real-time NAS video surveillance solution. This Beta also includes new features such as the scheduled powering on and off of cameras, support for the importation and exportation of camera settings, the exporting of recording files directly from the local HDMI interface, a digital watermark and identification tool for recording files, the new fisheye restoration mode 1O3R and two-way communication for AiSecure. This upgrade is suitable for use on all ASUSTOR NAS devices and can be downloaded from the Beta section in App Central.
Surveon Delivers 180-Day Non-stop Recording For Factory In Kuwait City With Enterprise-Grade NVR
Surveon, the enterprise NVR solutions provider, is pleased to announce that a factory in Kuwait City has deployed Surveon?s IP surveillance solutions as their partner for security application, including 100+ megapixel cameras and 10 enterprise-grade network video recorders, which not only fulfill the need of 180-day non-stop recording, but also ensure a strong protection for the safety in the factory.
Hidden Challenge Behind Body Cams: Storage
Police departments across the country are increasingly deploying body-worn cameras to better protect and serve their communities. Nearly every large police department in a nationwide survey said they plan to move forward with BWCs, with 95 percent having either implemented a body camera system or committed to doing so. However, medium-sized police departments (those with about 50 – 250 officers) appear to be facing the biggest challenges with when rolling out BWCs to their forces. The major issue is cost – not just for the actual cameras, but for handling the data the cameras produce. The demands for video storage are unprecedented for many police departments, which don’t have enough space on servers or hard drives to store the additional data.
Toshiba Launches Cloud-Based Percept NVRs
Toshiba Surveillance and IP Video Group, a business unit of Toshiba Information Systems, Inc., has expanded its line of Percept cloud-powered network video recorders designed to enhance the management of IP video networks. Percept has a universal sign-on that lets users access their recorders from anywhere, with almost any device. This does away with the integration hassles common with IP networks, so tech support time is reduced, plus system authorization is better safeguarded by the elimination of improperly stored passwords. Percept NVRs make it easier to export, share, and download video to the cloud, and to monitor the health of the recorder remotely using Toshiba’s MySurveillix service.
Sony Files New 337 Complaint Regarding Certain Magnetic Tape Cartridges
As LTO storage technology is beginning to take root in the video surveillance retention market, a lawsuit such as this described below, could ultimately reduce the number of sources to obtain this storage technology and would more than likely increase costs thus stunting the acceptance of this technology in the physical security market. With companies like Quantum and SpectraLogic and others showcasing the low-cost option of long-term video retention when using LTO storage technologies, such a supply-chain lawsuit will not help grow this market.
New HD Video Solution Offers High Value, High Quality Video From Holis/Tyco
Tyco Security Products, part of Johnson Controls, introduces its HD Video Solution, a new value-based solution that provides superior video quality while leveraging analog infrastructure. The cost-effective Holis HD Tribrid Video Recorders support SD analog cameras, Illustra Essentials IP cameras, and a brand-new line of HD cameras, allowing customers to achieve excellent video quality never before attained over coax.
Arrow Electronics Expands Security Offerings Via Its Seneca Brand
Arrow Electronics has expanded its security and video surveillance product offerings. In addition to its Seneca-branded products, the company is now offering Dell EMC OEM security and video surveillance products. Customers will have access to an expanded line of products, while still receiving the simple, out-of-the-box experience; pre- and post-order sales support; rapid response time; and optimized performance for which Seneca is known.
Surveon Enhances Protection Of Video Recordings With Upgraded VMS
Surveon, the enterprise NVR solutions provider, is pleased to announce the latest Enterprise VMS Version 4.0.A02 will start supporting Failover function on NVR5400 and NVR7300 Series in addition to NVR3000 Series. With Surveon?s unique and solid protection on video recording, this enterprise-grade VMS provides users with further professional features aside from existing functions like built-in advanced video analytics and system diagnostic, to manage videos more efficient and effectively, especially in mission-critical application.
Seagate Integration Now Milestone Certified Solution
Milestone Systems, the globally leading open platform provider of IP video management software (VMS), announces that the integration with Seagate Technology RealStor is now a Milestone Certified Solution. The Seagate RealStor RAID storage array is compliant for meeting stringent telecommunications and military requirements for shock and vibration. The Seagate RealStor 6000 series used in the Milestone Certification Tests can scale to 448 terabytes in a single array and reach 1.9 petabytes with additional expansion shelves. Performance of up to 250,000 IOPS per disk is possible along with 12 gigabytes per second sequential reads and 5.7-gigabytes per second sequential writes.
Quantum Wants You To Prepare For The Influx Of Surveillance Data
The video surveillance industry is undergoing a significant transformation?organizations are storing ever-increasing amounts of video captured from low-cost, high-resolution cameras, and they?re retaining the content for longer periods of time due to business mandates, new legislation, and/or future analysis. This is leading to an influx of surveillance data, and finding a cost-effective, high performance storage solution is crucial.
Quantum’s New StorNext 6 Delivers Unparalleled Combination Of High Performance And Advanced Data Management
Quantum Corp. announced StorNext 6, a major new release of its award-winning StorNext® file system. StorNext 6 adds new advanced data management features to the industry-leading streaming performance of the company?s scale-out tiered storage solutions portfolio, which includes flash, disk, tape and public and private cloud storage offerings. With this unique combination of performance and management, Quantum continues to extend the power of StorNext in not only media and entertainment but also other highly data-intensive environments such as genomics, academic research, video surveillance, oil and gas, and government security.
Pivot3 And ISS Announce OEM Agreement
Pivot3, the technology leader of hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, announced a strategic original equipment manufacturer (OEM) relationship with Intelligent Security Systems (ISS), an innovator in the development of advanced video management and video analytics software. Under the agreement, ISS will license the Pivot3 hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform and integrate it with ISS video management software (VMS) to supply more robust security intelligence and video storage options to customers.
The Need For Speed: Milestone Delivers Highest Performance In VMS Using NVIDIA GPUs
Milestone will show the industry?s first load balancing of multi-GPUs, hardware-accelerated decoding and video motion detection, motion metadata generation and recording of 1,000 Full HD 1080p H.264/5 cameras on a single BCDVideo BCD215 Series server —purpose-built for this project— with multiple NVIDIA GPUs.
Pelco To Build New Solutions With Added Value
Pelco by Schneider Electric, a global leader in surveillance and security products and technologies, today announced a new collaboration with Dell EMC to share technology, information and best practices in order to better serve customers globally. As a first initiative, Pelco is developing a new VideoXpert™ Professional Video Management System (VMS) line built with Dell EMC?s industry-leading OEM solutions.
ViSTA Networking Solutions Releases New NVR Configurator Tool
ViSTA Networking Solutions (VNS) is pleased to announce that its Network Video Recorder (NVR) configuration tool is now available for download from the VNS website. The VNS NVR Configuration Assistant generates an ordering part-number based on the user’s description of their surveillance application. The tool turns camera configurations, storage retention needs, and physical requirements into an NVR hardware specification that is just right for the project.
BluB?X Security Brings Milestone To The Cloud
BluB?X Security Inc., an AI Cloud-Based Access Control and Video Platform manufacturer is proud to announce its new partnership with Milestone Systems, the globally leading open platform provider of IP video management software (VMS). Any existing or new Milestone XProtect™ Corporate or Expert system can easily be brought to the BluB?X™ Cloud with a BluSKY Milestone integration. In addition, the integration provides a vehicle for BluSKY AI, Access Control, Alarm Management, Visitor Management, Elevator Destination Dispatch, Intercom and Biometric applications to create a single unified security platform. The system can run simultaneously on-premise and in the cloud making it accessible from any device, anywhere, at any time.