Security and surveillance systems
Introduction
Nowadays, mission-critical CCTV and security applications have become accessible to those who could not afford them before, which led to the video surveillance market boom in the past 10 years. High-definition intelligent cameras can be purchased at a fraction of the price of a decade ago. That leads to an exponential increase of camera units globally and the amount of security- and CCTV-related data that need to be recorded, stored, analyzed, archived, and protected in an uninterruptable, continuous, and predictable manner. That also boosts the development of modern, sophisticated analytical technologies like license plates and facial recognition, law enforcement, and crime prevention.
Problem
General-purpose HCI platforms are typically a bad match for CCTV workloads because they are some of the most challenging tasks for any system. When all the variables are taken into account – number of cameras, type of video format, frame rate, video compression, and retention days – the amount of data can become very large very quickly. Pure surveillance records are insipid without analytics, yet modern license plates and facial recognition, law enforcement, and crime prevention, along with “smart building” technologies, require a tremendous amount of compute and GPU resources and direct access to the data and must be fault tolerant to operate uninterruptedly. That usually leads to complicated duplicate multi-component infrastructure designs that are extremely expensive and require skilled IT-savvy surveillance integrators to configure.
Solution
StarWind HCI for CCTV is laser-focused to handle that one specific task. It fulfills all the requirements by providing purpose-built, minimalistic, and highly efficient platforms that leverage a fault-tolerant architecture of redundant components and highly available applications. Integrating the most powerful servers, all-, RDMA-capable networking, cutting-edge GPU, and optimized hypervisor components, all managed under a unified, proactive support framework, StarWind HCI for CCTV satisfies all the requirements of a modern video surveillance and analytics infrastructure, ensuring the shortest possible data path and ultimate protection. The solution is aligned with the best practices of Milestone, Genetec, and Briefcam and is thoroughly tested to provide ultimate performance and reliability. AI/ML-powered failure prediction system and purposely-trained engineering team allow a completely autonomous unmanned operation.
Conclusion
An effective minimalistic integrated solution with ultimate fault tolerance and a single proactive support umbrella for all the components turns StarWind HCA for CCTV into the fastest-performing protected platform that costs less and requires less work, time, and effort.
