Managing Choice and Chance in Surveillance Storage

These days, when it comes to storage of video, it’s choice – not chance – that determines security’s success at meeting its mission with use of technology. This is true for enterprise security leaders at the biggest organizations, where large numbers of cameras create ingest, frame rate, image quality and physical storage cost challenges. But it is equally true with small to medium-sized enterprises, which share much of the same security video needs and uses but not necessarily the same budgets or infrastructure.

Welcome to the new world of storage where the many choices – flash, solid state, at-the-edge, digital video recorders, security-dedicated network video recorders, networking to off-shelf servers or virtual storage, in-the-cloud – can scale up or scale down, mix and match to specific security and business goals.