Quantum Unified Surveillance Flexible and Secure Software Platform for Recording and Storing Video Surveillance Data

Quantum Corporation announced the Unified Surveillance Platform (USP), a resilient, flexible, and secure software platform for recording and storing video surveillance data.

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

Unlike other NVRs, Smart NVRs can run multiple physical security applications on single server
The Unified Surveillance Platform software simplifies video recording infrastructure and lowers TCO by consolidating the server’s compute, storage, and networking resources into a single unified and scalable system that hosts video management system (VMS) and other common security applications. USP software runs on a standard server to give security integrators flexibility in the server hardware they use and provides them with a path to subscription-based revenue and managed services with a simple subscription licensing model. In addition, the Smart NVR can run multiple physical security applications – unlike other NVRs – on a single server to reduce costs and complexity for security integrators and their customers. These offerings broaden the firm’s end-to-end portfolio of solutions for capturing, storing, analyzing, and retaining video surveillance data.

“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,” said Ross Fujii, GM, strategic markets, 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 optimized for video data and Smart NVRs, both offered in flexible consumption models that provide systems integrators and customers the convenience and choice they desire.”

USP provides resilient, flexible, secure platform for mission-critical video
The USP is based on software technology that the firm acquired last year from EnCloudEn. The company has further developed and optimized the software to meet the needs of the video surveillance market, particularly for organizations where video is mission-critical to their security objectives. 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 optimized 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 unauthorized access and malware

• Lower TCO through strategic use of open source, including a built-in KVM based hypervisor, software-defined networking, and management console for deployment and management 

NVR Series

Introducing line of Smart NVRs to reduce costs and simplify deployment
The Smart NVRs combine the USP software with a purpose-built recording server to create a next-gen, integrated appliance for capturing and recording surveillance video in small-to-mid size deployments.

Unlike other NVRs, the Smart NVR provides several benefits including:

• Ability to run multiple applications on a single NVR to reduce the number of recording or other security servers required

• Built-in data center-grade digital security to prevent unauthorized access and malware

• Predictive health and resource monitoring including VMS application event management

• Simple menu-driven, one-click setup and management

• Available in both 2U and dense 4U Smart NVRs that provide up to 960TB of capacity in a single chassis

“We chose to partner with Quantum because they offer best-in-class software for video surveillance storage that we believe will revolutionize the industry with its ingest capability, resilience and ability to run on any server,” said Rommel Roberts, CEO, ReddWare, Inc., manufacturer of hardware solutions specifically for the needs of the surveillance and physical security industry. “As a hardware manufacturer that has our roots in system integration, we offer unique expertise and hardware designed for the needs of system integrators and their customers. Our experience and purpose-built hardware combined with Quantum’s USP software solves their challenges of storing, managing, retaining video surveillance data for any requirement.”

“With their USP software and Smart NVRs, Quantum is addressing a wide spectrum of needs with solutions that are differentiated and more advanced than anything else on the market,” said Tom Larson, president, Velasea, full-service OEM system builder and distributor for the physical security market. “At Velasea, we only partner with companies that offer the best solutions to help security integrators and their customers reduce costs and allow them to evolve their security infrastructure to keep pace with ever-changing technology, compliance regulations and requirements over time, which is why we chose to work with Quantum.“

The company’s USP and Smart NVRs are both available and will be showcased March 22-25 at ISC West.