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Quantum expands video surveillance portfolio with industry-first smart video recording server for businesses

Big news from Quantum today as they announce an expansion to their Unified Surveillance Platform (USP) platform. This is a resilient, flexible, and secure software platform for recording and storing video surveillance data.

In addition to introducing this software platform, Quantum is introducing a new line of Smart Network Video Recording Servers (NVRs). The Smart NVRs combine the Quantum Unified Surveillance Platform software with a purpose-built NVR server to create a next-generation, integrated appliance for capturing and recording surveillance video. These new offerings expand Quantum’s video surveillance portfolio which also includes hyperconverged appliances from the recently acquired Pivot3 video surveillance assets, standard NVRs, and long-term retention solutions.

“With the strategic acquisitions of Pivot3’s surveillance business and EnCloudEn’s hyperconverged software last year, we extended our customer and system integrator base and go-to-market offerings with field-proven technology for mission-critical surveillance workloads,” Ross Fujii, general manager, strategic markets, for Quantum. “I’m encouraged by the momentum we are seeing in this business and the opportunity for growth in video surveillance data management. We are bringing even more differentiated value to market with our USP software optimised for video data and Smart NVRs, both offered in flexible consumption models that provide systems integrators and customers the convenience and choice they desire.”

The Quantum USP is based on software technology that Quantum acquired last year from EnCloudEn. Quantum has further developed and optimised the software to meet the unique needs of the video surveillance market, particularly for organisations where video is mission-critical to their security objectives. Quantum USP provides several unique benefits including:

• Flexibility for system integrators and customers to use their choice of server hardware • Convenience of subscription software licensing plans with variable length terms • Fast video ingest and instant playback using intelligent cache management optimised for VMS applications • Ability to create storage pools from mixed media types (HDD, SSD, NVMe, etc.) to match application-specific performance and cost requirements • ‘Write online / distribute offline’ algorithm to keep pace with video ingest and to avoid susceptibility to dropped frames • Built-in data center-grade digital security to prevent unauthorised access and malware • Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) through strategic use of open source, including a built-in KVM based hypervisor, software-defined networking, and management console for ease of deployment and management

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