Sans Digital

Sans Digital Video Surveillance Appliance (SD VSA) provides advanced video surveillance data management including live video capture and comprehensive video lifecycle management. Focused on the Record, Store, and Manage aspects of a forensics-based video surveillance system, Sans Digital VSA delivers fast search and playback through multi-tiered storage.

A key feature of SD VSA is its ability to manage less expensive tiers of storage resources. When integrating multiple storage tiers, you can expand your capacity and retention periods by purchasing only additional offline media, such as Bluray
discs, or digital computer data tapes (LTO-5 tape). This lets you realize significant savings from the traditional approach, where you must spend thousands of dollars on additional hard disk storage units.

When you compare the cost of the actual storage media, you see that the per-gigabyte costs of media options vary dramatically. Data tape, such as LTO, costs about four cents per gigabyte based on current market prices, while enterprise class hard disk systems typically cost 20 cents per gigabyte.

Not only is offline media less expensive, it is also more durable and can be kept for decades. With a 15 to 30 year archival storage life for data tape, these media are durable and reliable. LTO5 provides 1.5 TB of capacity on a single data tape cartridge, with LTO6 provides 3.0TB of capacity in development.

HP Tape Partner Newsletter
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