Securing the IT Perimeter

Processor Magazine just did an interesting piece on the abiding importance of physical security... even in a digital world.

Especially exciting to me is the fact that the article mentions 3VR and quotes yours truly:

3VR’s Russell says even though there is never too much security, there is often too much information. For example, he says, unless video footage can be managed, analyzed, and searched, it is not very useful.

Okay, maybe there is such a thing as too much security.

Video Focuses on Storage

With digital video on the rise in enterprises, storage teams will play a key role in accommodating the petabytes of data that can be generated by video surveillance systems.

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/magazineFeature/0,296894,sid5_gci1293369,00.html?offer=STWNB1 (Registration required)

The need to store 30GB to 40GB per camera per day isn't unusual. That comes to 1TB or more per camera per month. Now, if a retail organization has 30 to 40 cameras per store and 1,000 stores, you're looking at multipetabytes of storage, even if you're rewriting over some old data.

No matter who controls the video surveillance budget, the storage team will be asked to build out the necessary capacity to store video. And they'll have to learn the idiosyncrasies of surveillance storage because it's not going away.