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Comments (15)
John Honovich
I am confused why they released this as is.
Certainly, it is positive that it works as designed but how it is designed and priced makes it have very limited applicability. I am curious if anyone particularly agrees or disagrees here.
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Ryan Hulse
I’m the product manager for exacqVision and I want to add some comments to Sean’s review of our Cloud Drive storage service. First of all, thank you Sean for the time you invested in evaluating our service. I appreciate the detail IPVM puts into product reviews.
-Encryption- The review states “Secure remote playback requires a manual setup of VPN connection or port forwarding and use of the standard Exacq thick, mobile or web clients.” I want to clarify that all communication to and from the cloud is entirely encrypted. This includes video transmitted to the cloud from the NVR and video transmitted from the cloud to the client in the search page. Video transmitted to the client from the NVR is not currently encrypted, but is planned for one of our 2019 releases.
-The value of the offering- As IPVM pointed out, Cloud Drive storage for exacqVision is not currently designed to extend primary storage. While extension of local storage is a valid scenario, our goal in this first release was to help customers looking for specific off-site storage needs for important video. The primary value of an off-site copy of video is to protect against disaster/theft and to provide greater accessibility. Rather than aging off the oldest video to extend retention, an example of Cloud Drive usage is keeping the most recent day of video in the cloud to provide insurance against theft/destruction of the NVR, or meet compliance needs. In other scenarios moving important video off a bandwidth-constrained site to a central repository where others can access it is also desirable. Overall this first release essentially follows the same usage and value proposition as our archiving feature, and as pointed out, the Cloud Drive configuration and use is integrated into those existing capabilities.
- Limited diagnostic feedback/documentation – As our Cloud Drive storage is not meant to be a standalone Cloud VMS offering at this time, there is no dedicated new user documentation and it has very limited diagnostic capabilities. We do recognize better in-software diagnostic indicators are a useful enhancement and have plans to provide feedback on the status of cloud activity. On the search page, however, we made an explicit design choice to not show lots of feedback on where the video is coming from. From one perspective the operator should not have to think about where to search video and where the results were found. For example, I don’t care which youtube server provided my search results. Instead we opted to let the operator state a preference. If they are on the LAN with the NVR, they are likely to prefer pulling from the NVR. If the operator is over the internet and the cloud is likely to have better bandwidth, they can set the preference to pull video from the cloud. The search experience will still search and pull all the video and populate the timeline from all locations, but in cases where the video exists in both the cloud and the NVR, the client will adhere to the preference the user stated when the user presses the play button to begin full frame retrieval.
- Pricing - I agree that our pricing is more complex than the “typical” example given ($30 for 30 days, motion or continuous). We decided to trade off some simplicity for greater flexibility to support cameras of various bitrate and motion percentage. While it is true that at 2Mb/s for 30 days of continuous retention has list pricing is $900 yearly (List), if the motion percentage is 50% or lower, our pricing comes back in line or goes lower than the typical price. And for greater flexibility, the cloud storage assigned to the NVR is not tied to specific cameras or how they are configured. You can continue to adjust camera resolution/FPS/quality levels to adjust retention and share the cloud storage allotted to the NVR. Our hope is that this pricing model gives integrators flexibility and lets them use similar NVR storage estimation processes they follow, however this is a new service and we will listen to feedback on our pricing and packaging.
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Undisclosed #2
So could you set the archive to run daily and set the local retention period to 24hrs? So everything is only in the cloud or on the server?
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