Calgary Police Manages Influx of Surveillance Video with Stornext Petabyte-Scale Storage System

Faced with managing content for a new body-camera program, the Calgary Police Service braced for a massive influx of new surveillance video. The department found a creative solution that leveraged their existing Quantum LTO library that was just being used for backup. By adding StorNext Scale-out Storage, they were able to partition their library and add automated tiering for a high-capacity, economical, and highly scalable surveillance solution—all at half the price of expanding their existing disk only solution.

身体摄像机存档在磁盘成本的一半中存储视频监控的Petabyte

当卡尔加里警察局的IT部门了解了身体磨损的视频摄像机的新计划 - 这将从50个摄像机开始，然后增长到超过1,500 - 它意识到其当前的存储系统无法跟上。新摄像机每小时产生2.3千兆字节，或平方18.4千兆字节，这意味着IT团队需要建立一个新的解决方案来处理部门很快管理的视频内容的几乎一个悲观的悲观字节。

将备份和存档合并与现有基础架构

The IT team discovered it could meet the new needs and keep costs low by expanding an existing resource and adding auto-tiering software.

“关于这个项目的一个最酷的事情是它让我们扩展现有资源，而不是必须从头开始，”Dunn解释道。

卡尔加里警察局upgraded to an enterpriseScalar®I6000.library and partitioned it to support multiple applications. One virtual library holds the department’s backups—the second is a video archive.

开发简单，经济高效的视频存储

卡尔加里警察局selected Quantum StorNext® software for archiving because it manages large video files and large numbers of files. It automatically moves data between different storage tiers for extremely high capacity at very low cost. And it creates multiple copies for protection.

“Surveillance data must be kept under our direct control … and it must be protected,” explains Dunn. “But most of it will never be looked at again. So it does not make any sense at all to keep it on live disk. With StorNext, we don’t have to. It lets us use our existing resource, our library, to store all that data at a cost that was far, far lower than any disk-only solution we saw.”

Automating Management of Data Across Tiers

All the body-camera video is ingested directly into a StorNext environment, landing on Quantum high-performance disk where it’s kept for 30 days. In the background, StorNext automatically creates two copies of the files on tape. One stays in the library archive. The second is moved off-site.

StorNext允许用户通过单个文件系统界面查看所有文件，无论它们是否在磁盘或磁带上，它都将允许部门管理几乎具有240TB磁盘的鼠标码。

“Stornext的能力让我们使用少量磁盘......只是我们在控制下保持这个项目的成本。它还给出了我们保护和长期保留，这是一个真正的头痛与磁盘系统。“

新系统是仅磁盘方法的成本的一半。

Tape Archives for Long-Term Security and Accessibility

标量I6000轻松使用按需容量缩放，并且可以分区以支持多个应用程序。可选的双机器人提供冗余并保持性能高。军用级磁带加密和关键管理提供安全性。其扩展数据寿命管理主动可确保数据是可读的。

未来的灵活性

“我们知道录音技术会改变，我们需要避免被锁定到一个供应商中，”Dunn说。“因为它提供了一个文件系统界面，StorNext将与许多不同的相机系统一起使用 - 这使我们可以选择。”