Customer Success Story

Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office

The User

"Pivot3 is more efficient than traditional storage solutions. HCSO needs to capture critical surveillance data at all times and Pivot3 provides application failover to prevent the loss of captured video."

— Craig McEntyre, Manager, Business Support at Hillsborough County

The Challenges

  • Particularly high-crime rates in a two square-mile community adjacent to the University of South Florida campus
  • Struggled to control criminal activity including illicit drug sales and prostitution
  • Residents complained they were afraid to be outside in these areas

The Solution

The HCSO chose the Pivot3 Scale-Out Surveillance CloudBanks to both store captured video images and host the video management system software. The scale-out nature of the Pivot3 solution ensures that the performance and capacity of the system can handle the demands of incoming video streams and offer investment protection over time as the deployment grows.

The amount of storage capacity required by surveillance video is a major budget item in a surveillance installation since cameras can generate 1TB of data in one day. A scale-out system such as Pivot3 allows users the flexibility to start with as much or as little storage, and then add capacity and performance simply by non-disruptively adding appliances.

The Pivot3 CloudBanks also reduce cost by consolidating server and shared storage functionality in a common appliance. Pivot3 CloudBank appliances deliver both server and shared storage resources in one appliance and provide application failover that protects both storage and VMS applications in the event of a failure. The award-winning innovation of hosting servers in an iSCSI SAN eliminates the need for standalone physical servers resulting in 40 percent reductions in power, cooling, rack space and cost.

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