Cisco announced they are investing $100M in product development, service and support for businesses with fewer than 100 employees. Part of this investment includes the formation of a new business unit called the small business technology group. You can see this groups new website at “Cisco Services of Small Business”. There you [...]
The discussion around “Should You Use Software-Only Video Management Systems” at ipmarketvideo.info got me thinking about a feature we’ve been talking about over here at Envysion for a couple of years now, the “Downloadable NVR”.
A downloadable NVR appliance may offer a valuable mix of “software only” and appliance hardware. Given the number of software appliances [...]
DARPA (The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has originated several technologies that have become widely use outside of military applications, including the communications protocol used by the Internet itself.
The DARPA project called VIRAT is a relatively new project for a video analytics search engine. This type of research could very well lead to video [...]
Congratulations to Timesight who recently received $4.5M in new funding. It looks like they’ve recently launched a Video storage appliance which implements “Video Lifecycle Management (VLM)”.
It seems that VLM boils down to reducing the frame rate and resolution of stored video images over time. Ie: the older a video is, the [...]
When it comes to software, best of breed is a great goal, but usually carries a high price tag that is very difficult to estimate; so unknown that often it’s not done. Or so expensive that sometimes building capabilities into existing applications is less expensive than performing an integration in the first place. Right now [...]
I played around with Amazon’s calculator for their Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service).
All I can say is, “Woah!” S3 is not cost effective for video surveillance storage. If it were possible to store all the video recorded at Envysion’s customer locations centrally in the Amazon S3 service, the monthly charge just for storage is in [...]
We talk a lot about Software as a Service (SaaS) for video here. But how about a different take? Service with Software or SwihS!
Perhaps “Service with Software” emphasizes that Service comes first.
I say this as sometimes SaaS is viewed as scheme to apply a monthly recurring charge for software versus a “perpetual license” or one-time [...]
Anyone who worked with large scale computer networks in the 80’s and even early 90’s probably observed some changes that are perhaps similar to what’s happening today with Network Video.
Back then it was data communications (net-heads) and telecommunications (bell-heads) which were converging. In the late 90’s and early 00′ VoIP further converged telecom and datacom. [...]
Too cool, check out David Spark’s Security Dreamer Unconference coverage of ASIS. Great coverage for those of us who couldn’t make it!
ONVIF, PSIA , SIA. What are they? Fringe terrorist groups? l337 techno jargon? No, they are standards organizations working on Network Video.
Standards can be very valuable to end customers and users of video products. Value will come to customers by enabling increased competition (lower initial purchase cost) and ease of deployments (lower install cost) for [...]
