Evolving far beyond their manned-guard roots, security players are looking at strategic assets, namely video data. Evolving technology has allowed video to be delivered and managed as a digital asset rather than as a real-time observation tool. In fact, more than 40 percent of a digital video solution's cost now goes to storage. Insufficient storage, however, can render a sophisticated video system useless. Exacerbating this is the fact that traditional storage systems that typically service files and databases are by no means easy to configure to support video.
Evolving far beyond their manned-guard roots, security players are looking at strategic assets, namely video data. Evolving technology has allowed video to be delivered and managed as a digital asset rather than as a real-time observation tool. In fact, more than 40 percent of a digital video solution's cost now goes to storage. Insufficient storage, however, can render a sophisticated video system useless. Exacerbating this is the fact that traditional storage systems that typically service files and databases are by no means easy to configure to support video.
Five years ago, the security industry exper ienced revolut ionary changethe transition from analog to digital or tape to disk record...