What Is The Advantage And Disadvantage Using Cloud Storage ?

In general, storing in the cloud uses existing infrastructure and 'rents' storage space rather than purchasing equipment and 'buying' storage outright.

There are factors like cost of maintenance, data recovery, redundancy, and remote accessibility that may also come into play.

However, in a very simple model, using cloud storage is a monthly operational expense while local storage is a bigger upfront expense and smaller monthly/recurring maintenance cost.

Cloud storage for video needs to offer high throughput and high performance recall compared to services for hard drive backups. Not to mention that both local and remote ISP connections need to generally be big. Cloud video costs tend to be at the higher end of cloud storage costs as a result.

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Advantage: Cost effective, security, redundancy of records and can be remotely access.

Disadvantage: Bandwidth usage, data security and internet connection to access.

Advantage: Cost effective, security, redundancy of records and can be remotely access.

Disadvantage: Bandwidth usage, data security and internet connection to access.

I work with a corporation that has in excess of 500 sites with an average of 16 IP cameras per site. Video may need to be accessed by numerous individuals for any of these sites at any given time. Typically, video is stored at the site via the DVX. How would this work if cloud storage was used? Would it require a larger/faster network connection?

Disadvantage:  Several cloud storage services have a specific bandwidth allowance.

Advantage: Avoid e:mailing files to individuals and instead send a web link to recipients through your mail.

Using cloud storage is great for storage you do not need as many or any servers you can store as much information as you purchase in the cloud. stroed files can be accessed from anywhere their is internet. you can have a second area under the cloud for backup in ab emergency.

Disadvantages the main disadvantage is storage is only available if you have internet connectivity or having your own servers your data is local. security may not be as great. bandwidth is often set up with a set allowance once you surpass that limit it costs more o

I think main advantages are the security of data, since you probably will have better disk redundancies at the cloud and scalability flexibility. And I think main disadvantage would be the operational cost, considering the company where I work, where we have a large amount of cameras and high cost of WAN links.

Saves storage space, but the image resolution is not as good.

This discussion has just come at the right time for me, i have to give a presentation on the below

Technology high level overview

Who is in the market (Suppliers & Manufacturers)

What are their main products and USP’s?

What is the purchase / commercial model? What are the likely costs?

What is the market opportunity?

Who is this currently targeted at? What will it displace?

What is the skill base required for install / service?

Who is currently using this technology in real life?

Any help with the above questions would be greatly appreciated

Some factors I have wanted to research more....

advantages: redundancy and security of offsite recording. Tehe benefits complimenting onsite is large. Using the cloud to save longer periods of data, eg onsite 2 weeks/cloud 1 month+. Risk of fire, theft, vandalism, flooding, etc damaging NVR or onsite backup and all footage lost.

disadvantages: secondary cost, reliability, added infrastructure for high data transfers.