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.”

Manufacturers will do more for you and discs will stop spinning—or disappear altogether By L. Samuel Pfeifle Human resources databases? Web sites? Video game systems? Sure, they all need data storage, but they require little thimbles full in comparison to the vast oceans required by large video surveillance systems. It’s no wonder, then, that storage [...]