22 SECURIT Y TECHNOLOGY E XECUTIVE • September/October 2017 • www. SecurityInfoWatch.com
SECURED CITIES
A
traditional mid- size police department
with just a couple hundred officers typi-
cally will have about 100 terabytes of
digital evidence, enough for a couple of
robust servers to handle. But that's chang-
ing quickly. Add in higher quality data from body-worn
cameras and in-car cameras, crime scene footage, sur-
veillance cameras, highway patrol helicopter cameras,
video captured on smartphones and, soon, drones
armed with cameras, and the organization now can
have as much as three petabytes of video data that
needs to be managed, stored, transmitted, secured,
archived, analyzed and searched. All of a sudden, that
mid- size police department has the largest IT platform
of any IT organization in the city.
The Video Vortex and
Enterprise Surveillance
Transformation
Collaboration between an
organization's physical security
managers and IT leaders
is key to handling influx
of video data
By Ken Mills
Simply putting the data into black boxes just doesn't work
anymore. What used to take one black box before 4K video now
will take 12, and managing all those boxes – at a larger enterprise
takes hundreds of boxes.
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