There was a time when storing surveillance video on localized hardware made sense. Mostly it made sense because it was the only option on the table. There was also a time where TV’s with rabbit ear antennas made sense. Again, mostly because it was the only option available.
“That’s the way we’ve always done it” is the rationale that leads many solution providers right into obsolescence. While nobody is going to accuse the video surveillance industry of being on the bleeding edge of technology, the time has arrived for a true evaluation of data storage options. We are no longer limited to super inconvenient and unscalable solutions, other technologies have advanced far enough to remove those pain points, and still be less expensive and more reliable.
Traditional video storage vs. Bifrost Cloud Storage for Surveillance
Fiction: Cloud storage is more expensive than on-premise
storage
Fact: On-premise storage presents numerous challenges
around hardware replacement costs and risk of failure or file
corruption that can far exceed Bifrost Cloud storage, which is
the most cost reliable and predictable storage available in the
market.
Fiction: My video surveillance is not as secure in the
cloud as it is on-site
Fact: Bifrost Cloud ensures all video files are protected
in transit and at rest with a true end-to-end encryption and
other features such as immutability.
Fiction: You don’t know who can access your data and how
secure it is in the cloud.
Fact: Bifrost Cloud does not own your encryption keys.
Without those keys, nobody can access or modify your data.
Fiction: Cloud storage is at increased risk of cyber
attacks.
Fact: Bifrost Cloud storage is immune to DDOS and
ransomware attacks with proper procedures.
Fiction: Latency can delay your access to stored data
when you need it most
Fact: With speeds much faster than others, gain instant
accessibility to video files through Bifrost Cloud without
worrying about complex cold storage tiers that take hours for
retrieval.
Fiction: My video surveillance solution doesn’t work with
the cloud
Fact: Bifrost Cloud has a deep ecosystem of partners that
can help seamlessly extend local storage to the cloud.
Fiction: On-premise solutions are more stable than the
cloud.
Fact: Bifrost Cloud storage erasure coding and allows up
to 50 isolated points of failure as opposed to no replication
and one single point of failure.
In an industry predicated on preventing and minimizing risk, the time is now to mix modern digital storage solutions into your surveillance system designs. Bifrost Cloud offers the most modern solution at a price point that just makes sense.
Make the migration, its worth it.