The storage at the heart of enterprise HD surveillance systems - Secure Logiq

14 Feb 2022

Since HDD form factors and interfaces are standardised across the industry, businesses such as Secure Logiq benefit from having a range of HDD suppliers available offering a commoditised product. While this helps to ensure price competition, price alone does not win in the surveillance market. Here it is the less tangible aspects, such as business relationship, that is the value-add Toshiba offers and helps Secure Logiq to differentiate in their market segment.How Toshiba manages its sales channels have helped to ensure that HDDs are available in the quantities required and at a price-point that works. This allows Secure Logiq to deliver new systems within the time scales promised, and ensures that, should a storage component fail on-site, it can be replaced swiftly.Secure Logiq’s in-house testing facilities for the development of surveillance systems are a prerequisite for achieving the performance levels the enterprise end of the surveillance market requires. This is achieved using an in-house tool, Logiqal Benchmark, that allows virtual IP surveillance systems to be configured to test hardware in conjunction with the various VMS (video management software) offerings available. However, a storage supplier that also both understands the technical challenges and has laboratories for experimentation is of immense help for the customer.