Video Surveillance Storage / Hard Drives: 3 Companies

Overview:


Intransa

Intransa offers a clustered storage solution and NVRs for IP video management systems. Intransa optimizes their storage solution for video surveillance and allows organizations to scale to hundreds of TBs of storage. Intransa's primary direct competitor is Pivot3 but they also compete with general storage providers such as EMC and Dell. In June 2009, Intransa announced a series of NVRs that pre-loads leading IP video software offerings.

Detailed Information on Intransa from IP Video Market Info
Genetec, Milestone and OnSSI NVR Appliances Launched published on Jun 16, 2009
Intransa vs Dell - Surveillance Storage published on Nov 16, 2011
Intransa's Low End Product Line Changes published on Nov 15, 2011
Intransa's Storage Optimization (VSOP) Examined published on Nov 17, 2010
Examining Intransa's New Enterprise, Energy and Availability Management Features published on Oct 18, 2010
Intransa Raises $6.3 Million published on Sep 08, 2010


Pivot3

Pivot3 offers a clustered storage solution for IP video management systems. Pivot3 optimizes their storage solution for video surveillance and allows organizations to scale to hundreds of TBs of storage. In August 2008, Pivot3 announced a serverless computer initiative that would allow Pivot3's storage clusters to run IP video surveillance software, thereby eliminating application servers. Pivot3's primary direct competitor is Intransa but they also compete with general storage providers such as EMC and Dell. Read a report examining the value of clustered storage such as Pivot3's.

Detailed Information on Pivot3 from IP Video Market Info
Pivot3 Raises $23 million / Refocuses published on Feb 08, 2012
Pivot3 Pivots Away from Video Surveillance published on Aug 23, 2011
Examining Pivot3's Scale Out Hosting Platform published on Oct 11, 2010
MiniBank Product Line Examined published on Jun 07, 2010
$25 Million Series D Round Examined published on Mar 02, 2010


QNAP

QNAP offers NVR appliances. QNAP leverages its experience in manufacturing Network Attached Storage appliances to build solid, inexpensive NVR appliances for small camera counts. QNAP's NVRs support a modest variety of IP cameras are best positioned for home and small business market segments who are looking to replace DVR systems.

Detailed Information on QNAP from IP Video Market Info
QNAP NVRs Low-Cost IP Video Examined published on Nov 22, 2009
Examining QNAP VioStor Pro Series NVR published on Oct 04, 2010
Company Overview published on Sep 05, 2009