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EMC quietly wheels out GIANT SPYCAM MOVIE storage box

You gotta have somewhere to keep all your HD driveway footage

EMC has bought out a surveillance-specific VNX array and set up pre-configured Isilon filers for spy cam centre storage.

EMC reckons surveillance people need CCTV storage near the cameras and a central store for analysing all the footage. So, in a neat bit of marketing nichery, the firm has set up branded VNX systems for the edge and pre-configured Isilon arrays for the centre.

These scale out as the data streams from the edge come in and combine to create a data lake of video cam movies at the centre.

The VNX-VSS100 array – VNX Video Surveillance Storage? - is meant to support a bunch of cameras at the edge, so to speak, of a spy cam network. It starts at 24TB capacity, with a 120TB config as well, and maximum raw capacity of 344TB – 288TB of which is usable.

The disks are 4TB SAS ones and the array is accessed via iSCSI or Fibre Channel. There can be up to 16 Fibre Channel ports and 8 1GbitE or 10GbitE ones.

VNX_VSS100

It supports RAID levels 5 and 6 for data protection.

EMC says it's validated with video management software providers such as Aimetis, DVTEL, Genetec, Milestone, Next Level Security Systems (NLSS), OnSSI, and Verint, and optimised for VMware and Hyper-V.

Isilon enhancements are meant to make it a better fit for the analysis needs at surveillance central, the core site. There are three pre-configured Isilon spy cam systems (pre-configuration being the enhancement, as far as we understand):

  • X400 - 720 TB: supporting 250 cameras at 1080p and 30 days retention
  • X400 - 1.4 PB: supporting 500 cameras at 1080p and 30 days retention
  • X400 - 2.5 PB: supporting 1,000 cameras at 1080p and 30 days retention

They have the usual Isilon scale-out advantages, like starting at a 3-node cluster and growing to 144 nodes and 20PB+ capacity. There is also a SmartLock software option to protect against alteration or deletion of video content. Specsheet details here.

These are file-based systems, by the way, not block access-based, so there is an architectural boundary between the VNX-VSS arrays and these X400 ones.

EMC is also expanding its surveillance interoperability and testing lab in the USA and setting up a new one in Asia. Kit from EMC surveillance partners, such as Axis, Genetec, Verint, and Milestone can be checked out in the labs.

The VNX-VSS100 starts at $23,832, according to its US list price, with EMC saying it is priced affordably for block-only storage at the network edge. Isilon video cam movie filer pricing hasn’t been supplied. ®

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