Arxys Software Orchestrated Storage, Arxys | Shield, is now a Milestone Certified Solution. The testing and documentation were carried out with Milestone XProtect, the world’s leading open platform IP video management software (VMS). The certification verifies the interoperability of the tested solution with the full line of Milestone XProtect VMS offerings and describes a proven solution to deliver confidence and security for specifying, implementing and operating it.
Benchmark capabilities
“The Milestone Solution Certification shows the Arxys | Shield – Prime delivered the highest HD camera counts (2,944 cameras) and the highest total camera throughput (3.6Gb/s) of any storage platform tested to date by Milestone Systems,” said Mike Tarras, Solutions Integration Engineer for Milestone Systems, “These were all high-performance tests, with the goal of finding the maximum number of cameras which the system could support, given the video stream profile that was used.”
The aim of these tests was to simulate video surveillance scenarios similar to those seen in the corrections and detention vertical market. In this sector, high definition video resolutions are required, with regulation retention periods that can be 180 days to 2 years. Video frame rates also need to be sufficient to capture human movement (12-15fps is minimally acceptable). In addition, busy correctional facilities can have very high camera counts, and are often co-located with medical facilities, law enforcement and other high-security areas, which leads to increased demands on the system performance.
By combining storage, compute, networking and virtualization on commodity hardware, Arxys orchestrates the complexity of disparate systems into an optimized solution. The Arxys | Shield – Prime provides highly available (HA) storage resources for both the Milestone live video and archive databases with no single point of failure and full HA failover, redundancy and double parity data protection.
“Security professionals demand robust data security plus maximum throughput regardless of the number of cameras or frame rates,” said Andy Newbom, VP Marketing of Arxys, “Arxys clients can achieve the highest throughput and camera counts at a dramatically lower TCO.”
Milestone certifications focus on testing a solution’s architecture, functionality, performance impact and usability.
