Security Sales & Integration

September2013

SSI serves security installing contractors providing systems and services; surveillance, access control, biometrics, fire alarm and home control/automation. Coverage in commercial and residential product applications, designs, techniques, operations.

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purposes, there is a solutions — VCRs, for fundamental increase example — can be a in the strategic value costly source of failure. of video data as users Tat's why it's critical look for ways of mining to understand DR recorded video for options for surveillance revenue enhancement, and fnd the one that including enhancing work best for a given production, marketing, organization. Regardless training and customer of the size of a client's service. Te infux business, it is critical to in available security rely on high-availability data comes from an infrastructure increasing number that continues to of cameras, higher operate during resolution cameras and power, component According to a recent report by Homeland Security Research Corp., the 165+ or system-level million video surveillance cameras installed worldwide in 2011 have captured 1.4 longer retention times. Integrated solutions failures. Virtualization trillion video-hours of surveillance. By 2020, it will top 3.3 trillion video-hours. are also in demand, eliminates any single especially those that integrate video point of failure throughout the server, technologies that helped it reduce energy surveillance with other technologies network and storage infrastructure. Tis costs and consumption while delivering a such as access control, video analytics, allows the system to continue to do its high level of safety. intrusion detection and other job during adverse conditions. In addition to cost savings, server network-based systems to streamline Another key benefit to address in this consolidation through virtualization security operations, and reduce category is system consolidation. By also reduces the overall footprint of a manpower. consolidating servers to fewer physical datacenter. Tis means far fewer servers, All of these trends further drive the boxes, an organization can more easily less networking gear and smaller rack demand for virtualization in the security create a DR site. One metropolitan space are required. marketplace. As users look for ways to transportation system records video further enhance business efciencies, locally but also records back to an Faster Provisioning & Management — they will look to virtualization offsite location. This protects the data Server virtualization enables streamlined technologies to help manage multiple in case anything happens at one of the system provisioning and deployment. applications while reducing hardware. local sites, such as a terrorist attack Modern surveillance systems rival the or technology failure. In addition, it complexity of IT installations in both allows the organization to view video server and storage resources, making it NEXT UP FOR 'STORING & PROimmediately at the local site, in case appropriate to tailor management tools TECTING': VALUE OF THE DATA of an incident, but also analyze the to simplify and automate operation. Be sure to check out the November centrally stored video as a whole to get Te reality is that surveillance users issue for Part 2 of SSI's Master a big-picture view of their network. are managing petabytes of storage and Technician series: "Storing and virtual servers with roughly one-quarter Protecting Video Surveillance Data." It's Easy to Be Green — Migrating of the management staf of their IT Surveillance video is only useful if it physical servers to virtual machines counterparts. Centralized management is clearly and reliably captured, and and consolidating applications lowers tools aim to make system administration effectively stored and protected. power and cooling costs. No matter what easier for the surveillance user as the Recent events demonstrate the environment an end user operates in or expectations for video protection rise to IT value of video surveillance in what their surveillance and security goals levels. Tere is no need to master complex closing cases quickly and efficiently, are, cost savings are always benefcial storage area network (SAN) concepts and therefore reliable storage is to the overall organization. One airport since it's based on familiar, easy-to-use key. Find out more about how this saved 40% in power and cooling by Ethernet and server standards. can be accomplished in the second deploying virtualized storage appliances chapter of "Storing and Protecting in place of separate physical servers and OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES Video Surveillance Data." storage. As the facility is focused on being ALSO A DRIVER an environmental leader, it sought out In addition to relying on video for safety

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