Security and Monitoring Market With New Video Management Platform Models and
Strategic Partnerships
Company Teams With Industry Leaders Milestone Systems and OnSSI to Validate and
Deliver Robust Video Monitoring and Security Solutions
Singapore – September 13, 2016 – Hitachi Insight Group, which is responsible
for driving Hitachi’s global unified internet of things (IoT) business and
go-to-market (GTM) strategy, today introduced three new Hitachi Video
Management Platform (VMP) models designed to aggressively move the
company into the video security and monitoring market—a more than $6 billion
total available market (TAM) opportunity based on recent estimates from an
independent research firm. The new Hitachi VMP configurations combine
virtualized compute and storage and are delivered as fully integrated, turnkey
appliances. These new models are optimized for enterprise video security and
monitoring environments and support video analytics. Hitachi also announced
that it is growing its partner ecosystem and expanding its strategic alliances
with digital video management system (DVMS) industry leaders Milestone Systems
and OnSSI to develop and deliver joint solutions that offer increased levels of
enterprise security, workplace safety, and industrial and operational
efficiencies.
Video management systems provide a critical foundation for both physical and
digital information assets that support a holistic security program and
regulatory compliance in enterprise and institutional security environments.
Video monitoring, which has traditionally supported only physical security, is
now being used to support new applications, such as improving traffic congestion,
increasing industrial and operational efficiencies and supporting workplace
safety. These applications are driving a flood of “big video” data that
requires enterprise-class storage, fast data recall, expanded data security and
little-to-no degradation to effectively support real-time monitoring and
analysis. Although most enterprise customers today are looking to embrace
digitalization to transform their businesses, many existing video storage and
monitoring solutions still rely on legacy technologies and analog video formats
that cannot fully capitalize on IoT or support analytics and advanced
technologies. Hitachi VMP is designed to address this gap.
“Video monitoring and security are key areas where digitalization can offer
profound benefits. However, the migration to digital video solutions has been
slow, due in large part to the limitations of existing products and a reliance
on legacy technologies and analog video formats. With its Video Management
Platform, Hitachi is addressing a major gap in the video compute and storage
market that has prevented physical security solutions from evolving to fully
embrace digital transformation and IoT,” said Pierre Bourgeix, vice president
at consulting firm SecureState. “The Hitachi Video Management Platform
segments, stores, scales and protects video data to mitigate and manage
security threats consistently and with clarity. Hitachi VMP bridges the
digital and physical divide in enterprise environments to help security, IT and
business operations teams better utilize video technologies to reduce risk,
increase security and workplace safety, and drive greater operational and
organizational efficiencies.”
To extend the benefits of Hitachi VMP and help customers further maximize the
potential of their video assets, Hitachi is working with partners Milestone
Systems and OnSSI to deliver next-generation video management solutions built
on their trusted and market verified technologies. Hitachi VMP has been fully
tested and certified compatible by its partners to support the XProtect VMS
software from Milestone Systems, and the Ocularis 5 VMS software from OnSSI,
respectively. Hitachi is collaborating with both companies to co-develop
solutions, accelerate GTM and expand opportunities in the fast-growth video security
and monitoring market.
robust open IP video management software together with the simplicity and
reliability of Hitachi’s Video Management Platform will help to pave the way
for smarter, safer cities, industries and businesses of the future,” said
Reinier Tuinzing, strategic alliances manager, Americas, at Milestone Systems.
“Hitachi VMP has successfully completed the Milestone Certified Solution
Program and passed all required certifications for operating with Milestone
XProtect VMS software. We’re glad to be teaming with Hitachi to develop
high-reliability video monitoring and security solutions that will enable our
mutual government, enterprise and industrial customers to fully capitalize on
their video data, manage risks, protect people and assets, optimize processes
and reduce costs.”
opportunity for OnSSI and Hitachi to gain prospects and take share in a
marketplace ripe for next-generation video management solutions,” said
Mulli Diamant, vice president of international business development at
OnSSI. “During VMP’s certification testing, we were impressed with how
well its virtual foundation performed in supporting a thousand-camera system.
We’re pleased to be working with Hitachi to bring to market the unique
high-efficiency recording engine of our Ocularis 5 VMS with the Hitachi Video
Management Platform to improve physical and information security, and drive new
levels of operational capabilities for our mutual customers.”
VMP Product Specifications
VMP is built on trusted commercial technologies from the Hitachi Group family
of companies, including Hitachi Data Systems’ (HDS) Virtual Storage Platform
(VSP). Similar to Hitachi Unified Compute Platform (UCP), Hitachi VMP combines
best-in-class storage, network and compute technologies delivered as a tightly
integrated converged platform that is optimized for virtualized environments.
Hitachi VMP was specifically architected and built ground-up for video security
and monitoring deployments to provide maximum scalability, performance and
support a variety of enterprise applications, including video analytics.
Hitachi VMP is now available in three configurations to support medium to large
enterprise security environments ranging from 150 to 10,000 or more cameras:
the VMP 150, VMP 500 and VMP 1000. Key benefits include:
platforms are reported to have data loss rates of 20 percent or higher. Hitachi
VMP delivers fully redundant, highly available storage to ensure little-to-no
data loss and minimize video degradation.
that provides built-in virtualization and a scale-up architecture designed to
easily support increased need for video storage capacity and share integrated
physical resources like compute and analytics out of the box.
and highly regulated industries require security solutions that mitigate risk
from both existing and potential security threats. Hitachi VMP offers a higher
level of protection by providing customers with an option to maintain video and
information assets in a segmented environment to reduce the challenges of data
protection and complement risk-based security and compliance processes.
for compatibility with industry leading VMS software to ensure customers and
system integrators can deploy it with confidence.
customers want to do more with their video assets than is possible with
existing video management platforms or legacy technologies like CCTVs,” said
Mark Jules, vice president, public safety and smart city solutions at Hitachi
Insight Group. “We designed Hitachi Video Management Platform to take their
video security deployments to the next level. Together with our world-class
channel and alliance partners, Hitachi is supporting video analytics and other
advanced technologies that will future-proof their security environments and
help them fully capitalize on digital video and IoT. We’re pleased to be
working with Milestone, OnSSI and other industry leaders to deliver the
next-generation solutions that will propel our customers’ businesses forward.”
Availability
VMP is generally available now in North America, the United Kingdom and all
APAC countries excluding Japan, through Hitachi and select partners. The
company will also expand availability to France, Germany and other EMEA markets
this year, to meet the growing demand for digital and IoT-optimized video
security and monitoring solutions.
more information about Hitachi Video Management Platform, visit https://www.hitachiinsightgroup.com/en-us/smart-cities.html#video-security-and-monitoring.
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