Milestone Systems

Veracity, manufacturers of COLDSTORE, the surveillance industry’s first sequential storage system, announces COLDSTORE Arcus, a video surveillance platform for security installations requiring simple live view and forensic playback capabilities with no need for intricate feature sets or complex system architecture. This solution is a pre-integrated product powered by Milestone Arcus? video management software (VMS) that is embedded in the COLDSTORE hardware - ready to plug in, power on and operate.


Veracity’s well-established COLDSTORE technology is a high-reliability sequential storage system specifically designed for video surveillance storage. Milestone Systems’ newly-announced Milestone Arcus is an embedded VMS offering for integration into technology partners’ hardware platforms. Milestone Arcus and COLDSTORE are an ideal match, combining in a single-box solution which supports all IP camera types. COLDSTORE Arcus provides capacity of up to 60TB of video data storage and resource-effective power consumption of only 1 watt per terabyte.

The Milestone Arcus software includes a web-server solution with a simplified user interface adjusted to Veracity specifications. The web browser-based approach will allow users to interact with the system from any platform supporting a compatible browser. The simplicity of the interface combined with automatic camera detection and configuration means that installation will be extremely easy and almost no training will be necessary for playback and live viewing.

The advanced sequential storage technology in COLDSTORE allows the use of any consumer hard drive to provide up to 60TB of high-reliability storage across 15 drive bays. The entire system operates on less than 66 watts, requires no external cooling and creates a significant differentiator in today’s security market.

Veracity’s COLDSTORE Arcus offers a streamlined video management tool and storage system that does not require a separate VMS server. COLDSTORE Arcus will be sold by Veracity’s channel partners. Milestone Systems will provide future upgrades through ongoing releases of the software.

Milestone chose to partner with Veracity due to the innovative video storage approach implemented by COLDSTORE. Engineers from both companies have worked closely together to exploit the key product advantages so the end result will be a radical departure from today’s traditional client/server/storage architecture.

“Veracity is an ideal technology partner for this first phase in the launch of Milestone Arcus,” says Lars Nordenlund, VP of Incubation & Ventures at Milestone Systems.

“Their COLDSTORE system offers an innovative approach to the storage of surveillance video and therefore is a perfect match for our new business model of embedded video systems with Milestone Arcus.”

Alastair McLeod, founder and Managing Director of Veracity, agrees: “Milestone has long been a leader in the VMS world, and we saw that Veracity and Milestone shared the same vision for the future of the video surveillance industry. Both parties are excited about the prospects for COLDSTORE Arcus.”