Business Solutions for IP Video Surveillance

Storage Engine offers proven, cost-effective solutions that deliver simplified storage management and bulletproof data protection for IP video surveillance (IPVS) security systems.

Protecting the data that protects you^TM

IPVS is emerging as the new video surveillance standard for safeguarding against crime - and with good reason. Companies are experiencing the many advantages to using web-based IP technology over traditional CCTV methods: increased informational integrity, geographic and technological flexibility, speed, remote manageability, efficiency, ease, etc. This translates into improved security and peace of mind, but it also creates its own share of data management and storage challenges.

Digital video surveillance creates a steadily increasing stream of information, which requires a new approach for both storing data efficiently and protecting it from natural and man-made disasters. To support this intense growth, IPVS systems need scalable, easily managed data storage solutions that provide on-demand data recovery. And since every company's IT environment is unique, these solutions need to integrate smoothly with the existing IT infrastructure.

Storage Engine optimizes IPVS storage and data protection

Whether you are migrating from CCTV and setting up a brand-new IPVS system or need to support your current IPVS installation, Storage Engine's solutions will complement, safeguard, and empower your system. Storage Engine provides organizations of all sizes with enterprise-class tools that simplify storage management and let you build a cost-effective, scalable storage system to support your IPVS initiatives.

• Continuous Data Protection (CDP)
• Backup & Archiving Optimization with VTL
• Remote Disaster Recovery over IP
• Scalable, Simple Storage Networking (SAN)
• 4Gb FC-SAS and 4Gb FC-SATAii RAID
• High Speed Transport - Infinniband, 10GbE, Myrinet

Now you can confidently deploy IPVS without putting a drain on your IT department. Ease of use is paramount -- storage management and rapid recovery are achieved through a few mouse clicks in a centralized Java console. And since Storage Engine solutions are based on industry standards, they work seamlessly with your existing heterogeneous infrastructure - servers, software, IP and Fibre Channel networks, storage devices, etc. This eliminates the need for extensive new investments and enables you to take advantage of your staff's IP know-how.

Rapid Data Recovery via Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

Imagine being able to go back in time. With Storage Engine's Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technology, you can. This is critical because, after all, recovering that missing or damaged video file quickly can mean the difference between securing the safety of persons or property and an unsolved crime.

Storage Engine CDP solutions back up IPVS data on an ongoing basis in real time and allow easy, immediate recovery, minimizing the risk of data loss between conventional backups. If you need to backtrack for any reason (accidental or malicious deletion of a suspicious incident, data corruption, virus…) you can simply roll back to any moment. Whether you are storing your IPVS data on a server with internal or direct-attached storage (DAS) or in a networked (NAS or SAN) storage system, we have a CDP solution that will offer continuous replication to disk for nonstop data availability and fast recovery.

Backup and Archiving Optimization through VirtualTape Library (VTL)

Backing up all that IPVS data to tape for long-term archiving is becoming a burden, and your backup window is starting to catch up with you. Storage Engine's industry-leading VirtualTape Library (VTL) solution uses disk to dramatically enhance the reliability, speed, and availability of backups without requiring changes to existing backup software and policies. Storage Engine VTL leverages industry-standard disks to provision virtual tape drives and libraries to existing backup servers and is available as a convenient turnkey appliance or software appliance kit which can scale to accommodate the needs of any size organization.

Remote Disaster Recovery (DR) over IP

Storing IPVS data offsite is the best way to proactively safeguard against devastating data loss caused by unforeseen disasters. Storage Engine disaster recovery (DR) solutions give you this much-needed upper hand by providing unprecedented rapid data recovery in the event of a major failure. If you have another office or remote site, or want to build one, Storage Engine has the tools to remotely replicate your IPVS data across any distance over IP to your secondary location with great bandwidth efficiency and multiple data rollback points. Replication can even occur between dissimilar hardware.

If you don't have a secondary site, you can count on Storage Engine to provide a secure place to back up data offsite. Our PrimeVault^SM DR hosting center offers both local data backup and remote disaster protection in one affordable service-based solution, available in customizable plans for enterprises, SMBs, and SOHOs. By placing a Storage Engine storage server at the primary location for local backup, then seamlessly replicating the data to the PrimeVault Class-A remote data center, we enable rapid online recovery of your IPVS data in the event of any failure or loss.

Scalable, Simple Storage Networking (SAN)

Create a cost-effective, open storage area network (SAN) to centralize the management and provisioning of storage for your IPVS system. For medium to large enterprises, our award-winning Synchronism® software is the ideal solution for unified IP SAN and NAS (file-based) storage. For SMBs, remote offices, and small data centers, Storage Engine iSCSI Storage Appliances provide a turnkey platform for storage networking; we also offer Storage Engine iSCSI Storage Server for Windows software, which can be deployed on any Windows Server system. Now all IPVS users can reap the benefits of networked storage: advanced storage pooling, intelligent storage management, advanced business continuity/DR services, and the fastest data recovery possible.