Higher resolution video and longer retention times are pushing traditional storage to its limit and highlighting the need for a new storage approach.

outpace.IO storage for video surveillance

To address the challenges of streaming video performance, storage growth and cost, digital surveillance systems require a storage solution with excellent price-performance characteristics that will allow surveillance administrators to grow their storage capacity on demand.

 

outpace.IO developed A Series storage arrays to leverage the massive parallelism of Ethernet to provide exceptionally high bandwidth video write performance that can allow networked video recorders to handle more camera streams in a highly available RAID configuration.

Overview

Storage for video and network surveillance is a high growth market. This is another industry equally sensitive to costs and high throughput rates – with just-in-time capacity growth options.

 

In the rapid shift from analog to digital video, a huge market has been created seemingly overnight for solutions such as A Series, with affordable, high performance, scale-out architectures.

 

High-definition digital cameras are producing between 4 -5x the amount of data as standard cameras (Example: 100 HD cameras can easily produce 300 TB per week, quickly moving into the petabyte range).

 

Administrators of these systems are seeking less expensive, highly scalable storage where trade-offs in retention times are not necessary just to accommodate budgets.

 

A Series uses a single tier storage building block to create scale-out storage ideal for high growth environments like digital surveillance. This scale-out architecture allows administrators to efficiently grow storage capacity to multiple petabytes exactly in line with user demand. A Series also eliminates many layers of storage complexity, like multi-pathing and port bonding.

 

By eliminating complexity A Series storage can be configured in less than a minute, freeing surveillance administrators’ time to focus on security priorities.

 

Finally, A Series is digital surveillance software agnostic, allowing surveillance administrators the flexibility to choose best of bread surveillance software and change that software without impacting the underlying storage infrastructure.