Failure (112)

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Disaster at the Ingram Micro Pavilion

What a horrible first impression. Determined to take the physical security industry by storm, IT mega distributor Ingram Micro pulled out all the...

By John Honovich - about 12 years ago

Video Surveillance Statistics Directory Vol 2

In this report, we aggregate and present numerous statistics about how surveillance is being used in the real world. Recently, we conducted an in...

By John Honovich - about 12 years ago

Where to Install Headend Equipment

Installing surveillance headend equipment in the wrong location can lead to increased failure rates or tampering. Often little thought is given to...

By Ethan Ace - about 12 years ago

Firetide Failing in Dallas

While the City of Dallas is was a flagship 'win' for wireless mesh vendor Firetide, a recent RFP and numerous reports to IPVM indicate major...

By Ethan Ace - about 12 years ago

Favorite Hard Drives for Surveillance 2012

Hard drive failure is perhaps the number one cause of lost video in a surveillance system. But which hard drive manufacturer, if any, is most...

By Ethan Ace - about 12 years ago

How to Handle Hard Drive Failures

No matter how well maintained a surveillance system is, hard drives eventually fail. Indeed, A recent member's poll [link no longer available]...

By Ethan Ace - about 12 years ago

Hard Drive Failure Statistics 2012

Hard drive failures are possibly the number one reason for lost video in the surveillance industry. To get a better idea of how long drives last...

By Ethan Ace - over 12 years ago

Calling Out Manufacturer Failures

Serious problems with surveillance products are commonplace - from cameras dying out of the box to significant VMS bugs causing unstable systems....

By John Honovich - over 12 years ago

Storage: Redundancy / RAID Statistics 2012

Increasingly, users expect their data will never be lost. From using web apps like Google mail to storing files with services like Dropbox, it is...

By Ethan Ace - over 12 years ago

RIP Sanyo CCTV

Sanyo's video surveillance / CCTV business is being shut down, according to multiple IPVM sources. Sanyo offered a moderately broad and fairly...

By John Honovich - over 12 years ago

Worst IP Camera Manufacturers 2011

What IP camera manufacturers have integrators had the worst experiences with? Over the last month, we ran an in depth survey gathering results from...

By John Honovich - over 12 years ago

GVI Security Shut Down

US surveillance manufacturer and distributor GVI Security [link no longer available] has shut down. GVI is best known historically for their...

By John Honovich - over 12 years ago

Bosch Responds to ObjectVideo Lawsuit

The ObjectVideo lawsuit continues to make its way through the legal process. First, Sony responded to the lawsuit and now Bosch is responding. In...

By John Honovich - almost 13 years ago

Cernium Layoffs and Restructuring

According to tips provided to us and confirmation from a source close to the company, video analytics manufacturer Cernium has made sizeable...

By John Honovich - about 13 years ago

ICOP Bankrupt

US mobile DVR manufacturer ICOP has suspended operations [link no longer available] and is seeking investments or perhaps an acquisition. At the...

By John Honovich - over 13 years ago

Examining NICE's NiceVision VMS

NICE is one of the largest video surveillance vendors yet the company's products are not very well known nor understood. Over the past decade, NICE...

By Antony Look - over 13 years ago

Casino Video Surveillance Guide

Casinos break most of the 'rules' in video surveillance. With their large camera counts, high risks, frequent threats and numerous regulations,...

By John Honovich - over 13 years ago

Nio Revenue Plummets, Shuts Down Tempest DVRs

Nio, better known by their historical brands - Dynapel and Tempest Microsystems - has turned in very poor 2009 financial results. In their Q4 2009...

By John Honovich - about 14 years ago

IT / Security Integrator Partnerships are a Failure

The PSA, a major proponent of IT / Security integrator partnerships has acknowledged the failure of having IT and Security integrators partner. In...