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Cisco brings video surveillance on UCS platform

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Networking company Cisco announced that video surveillance software is available on its Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform.

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With a new provisioning deployment model for large-scale city surveillance, transportation, critical infrastructure, energy, healthcare and other industries, Cisco Video Surveillance Manager provides centralized management with improved situational awareness and real-time response capabilities.

The company claims that by virtualizing its video surveillance software, it is improving performance, scalability, agility and manageability of the platform.

Virtualization of Cisco Physical Security solutions with UCS is part of Cisco’s strategy to move toward a solutions-led building block approach for the complete Cisco Physical Security portfolio, resulting in an optimized IP network and Physical Security Foundation, says a release.

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This announcement is the next step in Cisco’s physical security strategy and follows the Cisco physical security strategy evolution announced in Fall 2011.

This provides customers with a combination of Cisco physical security products, services, third-party products and systems, and core networking, data centre, video and collaboration offerings to support business needs.

UCS Express extends video surveillance as a service on the network as a virtual solution with application consolidation on a blade-form factor for equipment that already exists in many branch offices.

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As part of an end-to-end solution, Cisco UCS offers infrastructure consolidation in the data centre with innovative virtualization, memory, provisioning, I/O and management capabilities.

Cisco UCS Express integrates the compute platform with device convergence to facilitate the extension of data centre applications into the branch, adds the release.

Cisco Physical Security Storage series platforms, as well as storage options from EMC and NetApp, will be available for use with Virtualized Video Surveillance as this solution is extended to the UCS B-Series and C-Series platforms.

Guido Jouret, general manager, Enterprise Video Group, Cisco, said: “Virtualizing video surveillance offers organizations reduced infrastructure costs, faster disaster recovery and deployment, reduced staffing needs and cooling costs and improved application performance. Our solutions-led building block strategy focuses on virtualizing all Cisco software applications with Cisco Unified Data Center applications to support optimal end-to-end video quality.”

Video Surveillance Software release 6.3.2 is available now on UCS Express. The software is scheduled to be available on other platforms including Cisco UCS B and C Series in June 2012. Pricing for the UCS Express-based solution block starts from $2,500.

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