Hybrid Cloud Video Archiving Solutions
High-Performance Local Recording with Scalable Cloud Retention
Hybrid Video Solution
As surveillance systems continue to grow, organizations face increasing challenges around video retention, storage expansion, and disaster recovery.
BCD’s Hybrid Video Storage Solution combines high-performance local recording infrastructure with cloud-based archival storage to create a flexible, cost-effective approach to managing surveillance video.
This architecture allows organizations to keep recent video on local storage for immediate access while automatically archiving older footage to the cloud for long-term retention.
Why Choose Hybrid Storage Architecture?
A hybrid approach delivers the performance of on-premises storage with the scalability and flexibility of cloud storage.
As video ages, it can be moved to cloud storage, freeing capacity on primary recording infrastructure while preserving access to historical footage.
Rather than continually expanding local storage arrays, organizations can leverage cloud storage for long-term retention requirements.
Cloud-based archives provide an additional layer of protection against system failures, cyberattacks, natural disasters, and accidental data loss.
As camera counts increase and retention periods expand, storage capacity can grow without major infrastructure upgrades.
How the Hybrid Video Solution Works
Key Benefits
- Extended Video Retention: Maintain months or years of footage without continuously adding local storage capacity.
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership: Reduce the need for recurring storage hardware upgrades and data center expansion.
- Multi-Site Video Management: Support multiple facilities while centralizing archived video storage.
- Enhanced Cyber Resilience: Protect valuable video evidence with secure off-site storage.
- Flexible Growth Path: Scale storage independently from recording infrastructure.
Ideal Use Cases
- Long-Term Evidence Retention: Support investigations and legal requirements with extended retention periods.
- Education Campuses: Maintain large volumes of surveillance footage while controlling infrastructure costs.
- Healthcare Facilities: Meet retention requirements while protecting critical video records.
- Transportation and Critical Infrastructure: Archive high volumes of video data while maintaining operational performance.
- Enterprise Security Operations: Support growing camera deployments without major storage redesigns.
Supporting Technologies
Modern hybrid surveillance storage architectures are designed to integrate with leading video management systems, cloud storage providers, data movement platforms, and enterprise infrastructure solutions. BCD works with a broad ecosystem of industry-leading technology partners to develop solutions tailored to each organization’s operational, security, and retention requirements.
Build a Stronger Video Infrastructure
Whether you’re planning a new deployment or scaling an existing surveillance system, our experts can help design a solution tailored to your environment.
