EMC Introduces New Video Surveillance SolutionsEMC Introduces New Video Surveillance Solutions

EMC is beefing up its enterprise surveillance portfolio with new platforms, additional solutions and validation capabilities for its labs and expanded partnerships with several major distributors, the company announced this week. The new solutions will focus on giving customers what EMC calls “edge to core” architecture, which will allow enterprises to deploy multiple endpoint cameras connected to a central location for analysis.

Beginning immediately, customers will be able to purchase the VNX-VSS100 storage system and the EMC Isilon scale-out data lake solution for their security infrastructure. EMC also announced expanded partnerships with Ingram Micro (IM), Avnet (AVT) and ScanSource to carry the VNX-VSS100 and Isilon platforms. VMS providers Axis, Genetec, Milestone and Verint have had their software certified on the new platforms as well.

“New requirements for video surveillance have driven customers in industries such as transportation and government into the digital age, where large pools of higher resolution video and sensor data must be retained for much longer periods of time and be instantly available for intensive analytics,” said Michael Gallant, senior director, Video Surveillance Practice, in a statement. “EMC VNX-VSS100 at the edge and EMC Isilon at the core combine to manage surveillance data from a wide range of sources to provide a highly scalable, efficient, and cost-effective video surveillance storage portfolio for the most demanding and highly distributed environments.”

Both the VNX-VSS100 and Isilon platforms are expected to give customers a flexible solution for video content storage and analysis, according to EMC. The company anticipates that the surveillance equipment market will reach $26 billion by 2018, with a growth rate of two times faster than the current IT market, according to IHS Technology. EMC also announced increased capacity and capability for the company’s dedicated global labs for test and validation of video surveillance solutions to help speed deployment for its solutions and reduce time to productivity for customers, according to the company.

“Open and flexible 'edge to core' solutions are emerging as the type of platform required to permit rapid adaption to changing industry requirements and trends,” said Gallant. “These trends give security practitioners greatly improved capabilities to effectively and reliably detect threats at an early stage to deter and contain crime, support chain-of-evidence procedures, and meet governance requirements.”