Veracity, the IP video transmission, storage and display company, is delivering a paper on the critical differences between IT data and video data. Veracity will be presenting and exhibiting at the San Diego Security Show, at the Town and Country Convention Center in San Diego, California, on January 25 and 26, 2017.
John Kampfhenkel, Director of Technical Sales for Veracity says: “Larger numbers of cameras, generating greater image quality and longer retention times for today’s safer cities, all point towards the need for very high capacity storage systems for video surveillance data. These storage systems can often represent 40 per cent to 50pc of the overall system cost, so the choice of storage solution is critical. Furthermore, traditional storage solutions are a high-maintenance component of the system and frequently have the shortest useful lifetime, leading to increased TCO.”
John suggests that, in almost all other areas of business, the customers’ understanding of key differences between two engineered products would lead them to choose the one most suited to the job. For video data, the norm is to use an IT-based architecture and try to make it more reliable. “It’s like choosing to use an SUV over an Indy 500 racing car to take part in the Indy 500. They’re both capable of doing the job, but one of them is designed from the ground up to achieve the desired goal.”
On display at Veracity’s booth will be COLDSTORE, pictured, the firm’s sequential storage system that the makers say delivers much higher disk reliability, offers a 90pc power saving over equivalent RAID-based systems, it’s claimed, for lower total cost of ownership.
Offered as a 3U high, 150TB unit that uses only 0.4W per Terabyte, COLDSTORE is also a part of the TRINITY architecture which eliminates the need for Network Video Recorder (NVR) servers by allowing IP cameras to record to COLDSTORE. TRINITY is supported by open platform cameras from Axis Communications, Hanwha Techwin, UDP, Mobotix and other brands.
