Quantum Expands Video Surveillance and Physical Security Product Portfolio

Quantum Corp. announced product lines and capabilities which expand its video surveillance and physical security product portfolio.

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Expanded portfolio includes:

• Line of network video recording servers

• Line of servers for building management systems and GPU-based video analytics

• Capabilities for the VS-HCI Series, which the company launched in 2019 to provide hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for surveillance recording, video management, and building operations.

These expanded product offerings add to the company’s existing solutions for shared archive storage for surveillance, based on its StorNext file system and the recently announced acquisition of the ActiveScale object storage solutions. The result is one of the broadest security infrastructure solution portfolios available from any single vendor.

Network video recording server line

VS4160 NVR

The line of Network Video Recording (NVR) servers complement the company’s VS-HCI Series and are offered in both mini-tower and rack-mounted form factors to provide customers with a range of affordable, reliable, and performance options for surveillance recording and video management. The firm’s VST mini-tower NVRs are designed to support the surveillance of retail stores, gas stations, small buildings and campuses, and other small implementations, while VS4160 NVR is one of a dense and high capacity NVRs available for environments with large retention requirements.

Analytics and application servers

VS2108-A analytics server

To support the extreme graphics processing and parallel workload demands of video analytics, the company has introduced the VS2108-A analytics server. It can be configured with up to six GPUs in a compact 2U chassis and will accelerate results with video analytics software platforms. For access control and building management applications that require a highly available architecture, the firm is introducing a highly available application server, the VS1110-A. This enterprise application server utilizes the same VM failover capablity found in VS-HCI series. Like the VS-HCI series, the VS1110-A server can be monitored remotely via a secure web-based portal, enabling facilities managers, integrators and the firm’s support to proactively monitor this system anytime, anywhere.

Monitor VS-HCI series health remotely via secure Web-based portal
The company has enhanced the capabilities of the VS-HCI series with secure, remote monitoring via a web-based portal. This series provides hyperconverged infrastructure for surveillance recording, video management, and building operations. The available architecture scales out as video camera counts increase and makes it to manage operations by running multiple physical security workloads on a single platform.

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StorNext and ActiveScale storage for large surveillance archives
On March 16, 2020, the company announced that it had completed the acquisition of the ActiveScale object storage business from Western Digital Corp. Object storage can be used as a tier for multi-petabyte surveillance infrastructure. Video is typically captured and recorded on performance servers, then archived on object storage-based systems. The combination of StorNext file system and ActiveScale object storage can be a valuable solution for shared archive storage in many surveillance environments.

“The most important message from Quantum to all of our customers and partners during this unprecedented time is that our top priority is the health and safety of our society, our employees, our communities and all of you. Our next priority is to ensure BC and site security,” said Jamie Lerner, president and CEO, Quantum. “Video surveillance plays a vital role in securing infrastructure and critical assets, and in protecting citizens. We’ve applied our years of expertise to build a comprehensive portfolio for surveillance, and we are responding quickly to the needs of our customers.“

“Kepler Networks customers are on the front line of change in the surveillance industry, and as video surveillance technology has evolved it has placed unprecedented strain on storage,” said Gavin Bortles, president, Kepler Networks. “Customers who adopt intelligent, scalable storage as the foundation of their new surveillance and security system leave more budget for cameras, analytics, and other tools dedicated to protecting people and property.“

Resources:
Quantum video surveillance solutions     
VS-Series HCI appliances    
IHS Report: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) for Video Surveillance (requistration required)

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