BCDVideo has launched its new Hybrid Cloud Connectivity offering with software developer Tiger Technology. A software firm, it offers data management solutions for companies across Enterprise IT, Surveillance, Media and Entertainment, and Small Medium Business (SMB)/Small Medium Enterprise (SME) markets.
This joint offering provides security customers with a highway to connect their video management systems (VMS), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), artificial intelligence and analytics to the cloud.
All BCDVideo and Video Storage Solution (VSS) video appliances will include the Harmonize Bridge powered by Tiger Technology. These cloud-ready appliances begin rolling out as a standard feature on March 1, 2021. The BCD Harmonize Bridge offering means that the integrator or the end-user can choose the cloud provider of their choice.
BCD customers may manage cloud storage and services, while maintaining legacy applications and workflows. This offering enables customers to store data on-premises, as well as in private and/or public clouds. Customers can customise their storage system, prioritising cameras that require hot cloud storage and immediate insights, while also protecting devices that send footage to cold storage for long-term storage and analysis.
The popularity of local and remote data storage has been on the rise, in private and public clouds, because of the access and clean workflow collaboration it allows between remote facilities with a shared dataset. These hybrid systems allow customers to integrate specialised services — such as artificial intelligence (AI), video rendering, data archival and long-term retention — without the need for on-premises builds. This makes hybrid models the premium option for deployments that intend to expand their systems’ size, which would require large capital expenditures otherwise, the firms say. Broadly, hybrid cloud infrastructures reduce costs, maximize return on investment (ROI) and offer operational flexibility to any security customer — all while keeping data accessible and secure.
Jason Glover, Vice President of Sales, said: “As security software companies continue to expand their product portfolio, the cloud is always a topic of conversation. BCD’s cloud initiative offers a bridge through our Harmonize suite of software products, powered by Tiger Technology’s cloud bridge, to allow VMS companies to bridge archived and recorded data to the cloud offering of their choice, without having to write special integrations.”
