Cameras and video management software (VMS) tend to get a lot of attention, but cameras and VMS are nothing without the third leg of the stool—storage. And the industry is starting to acknowledge that.

Storage in the physical security space has been dominated in recent years by the transition to IP, replacing old analog as the dominant method to retain the results of video surveillance. Now, top companies in the storage space say, the next step will be to move to “the cloud.”