Digital Video Survelliance

Pillar Application Aware Storage for Digital Video Surveillance

Digitizing surveillance video has increased the value of the stored content because now you can search large amounts of data to get to a particular point in time within seconds. Older surveillance technology, such as CCTV (Closed Circuit Television), was awkward and slow to access and cumbersome when it came to finding specific content quickly.

When planning a digital surveillance infrastructure for monitoring an environment, preventing crime or replaying an event, there are numerous choices in vendors, type of surveillance applications and end-point cameras. However, the choice of the storage system is made easy - the Axiom’s architecture and features make almost any deployment scenario easy and rapid.

Whether digital surveillance is used in the gaming industry, for homeland security or public safety, Pillar’s Digital Surveillance solution allows you to store massive amounts of digitized content on the Application Aware Axiom storage system and tune that entire platform's resources on a volume-by-volume or filesystem-by-filesystem basis. The complex forethought that was once required to initially setup the storage is gone; while at the same time utilization of the entire storage system is improved.

 

 

Pillar's Application-Aware Storage Solutions for Digital Video Surveillance provide:

  • A unified storage system that provides LUNs and filesystems from the same storage pool, enabling the use of server based processing or camera end-point processing used in digital surveillance video capture. This reduces the total cost of ownership by not requiring a fork-lift upgrade when digital video surveillance technologies advance and you have to update your storage system to meet the new connectivity requirements.


  • A scalable platform that allows you to pay-as-you-grow with the number cameras, the type of video streams and the retention period.


  • A single storage system can be used not only for Digital Video Surveillance content, but for other security/law enforcement applications such as Computer Aided Dispatch and Access Control Systems. A unique quality of service level for each application and each type of data can be set depending on importance and relevance.


  • An easy to use storage system that can provision storage with six-clicks and does not need in-depth storage administration background or specialized storage skills.