NetApp encourages
future-proofing of video
surveillance infrastructure
With storage the backbone of today’s video surveillance systems,
NetApp has participated at Intersec 2020 in Dubai to help
organisations modernise their video surveillance infrastructure.
etApp, a leader in cloud data
services, has participated at
Intersec 2020 with the aim of
helping organisations modernise their
video surveillance infrastructure and get
more out of their data.
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NetApp showcased its Video
Surveillance Storage Solution designed
to access and retrieve content quickly –
whether for 200 or 200,000 cameras.
“Video surveillance has evolved
beyond security into intelligent video
applications. Businesses aim to get
more out of their surveillance data to
make better and faster decisions and
to ensure swift operations for their
security teams. In addition, advances
in camera technology place extreme
demands on video surveillance storage
infrastructure,” said Fadi Kanafani,
Middle East Managing Director and
General Manager at NetApp.
“Organisations are beginning to realise
that their video surveillance system
is much more than just cameras and
software. Storage is the backbone of
today’s video surveillance systems.”
Intelligent video is expanding the use
of video surveillance imagery for new
use cases in operational efficiency,
marketing, demographic analysis and
true business intelligence. Business
decision makers are now using video
surveillance images to boost revenue
growth and measurably reduce costs.
Next generation intelligent video
surveillance cameras and analytical
applications are capturing more
information than ever.
Fadi Kanafani, Middle East Managing
Director and General Manager at NetApp
www.intelligentciso.com
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With the rapid growth of video
surveillance data, organisations need
reliable, affordable storage solutions
that can scale quickly without complex
management overheads. Complexities
inherent in scale-out file system
architectures can cause performance
“The uptake of intelligent video is being
seen across key verticals such as retail
enterprises, hospitality, healthcare,
governments, oil and gas, and other
public entities – all looking to gain more
information from the data generated.
Participation at Intersec gave us the
opportunity to demonstrate our expertise
in this sector and how we can help
businesses get more out of data by
using AI-driven analytics to derive
information that they can work with,”
added Kanafani.
Solutions focus:
NetApp’s E-Series storage offers VMS
and analytics technologies direct, super-
fast access to data along with ensuring
reliability, speed and scalability. The
E-Series’ block storage approach offers
significant benefits over scale-out file
system architectures, including modular
scalability for capacity growth in small
or large increments, lower risk and
simplified management. It also offers
high-density, high-capacity storage with
reasonable lifecycle costs.
A key differentiator of the E-Series
storage is the handling of drive failures.
Traditional RAID-based systems lose
up to 40% of their performance while
rebuilding a failed drive. As it takes
about 24 hours per terabyte to do the
rebuild, larger capacity (12TB) drives
can take a couple of weeks to rebuild. u
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This causes an increase in requirements
for bandwidth, write speeds, and
storage capacity. As video resolution
and retention requirements increase,
the volume and size of media content
are growing quickly. Traditional storage
architectures are not designed for these
massive amounts of big video content.
and management bottlenecks and
introduce security vulnerabilities. The
NetApp E-Series offers advantages
in video surveillance environments,
including modular scalability, lower
risk, always-on access to data and
simplified management.