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Volume 11
April 2017 Edition
What Role does Cloud
Storage Play in
your Surveil In-
frastructure?
By Wayne Arvidson
Delivers for Managing
Unstructured Data in
Highly
Demanding
Enterprise Environ-
ments
When it comes
to your surveil-
lance video, what
is your storage
strategy? Where
do you plan to store
the data? How long
will you need to keep
it? How often will you
access it?
These are important questions
for law enforcement agencies
and municipalities to consider, espe-
cially when you think about the changes
taking place in the surveillance industry.
Camera stream counts are increasing. High-res-
olution digital cameras are replacing analog at a
fast rate. Body cams are becoming more preva-
lent. Retention times for video are getting longer.
mar-
ket.
In fact, Gartner
pre-
dicted the worldwide mar-
ket would reach $208.6 billion in 2016.
All these changes culminate to produce more
video content than ever before. In fact, industry
analyst IHS predicts that 859 petabytes of video
will be generated daily by 2020. The question is:
What to do with all that data?
Many are looking to cloud storage as a possible so-
lution. Overall, organizations are becoming more
comfortable with storing data in the cloud, and
that’s leading to growth in the public cloud services
(Xcellis high performance storage engineered for demand-
ing workflows. A powerful and scalable system that simplifies
storage architecture and streamlines operations. Xcellis en-
hances workflows, boosts efficiency, improves productivity,
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