VMS crash course - Cheat sheet
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Camera
On-premises
Cloud
Camera
Local client
Local storage
Cloud evidence
management
Cloud-based
VMS
Storage
We've seen that the camera is the hardware needed to capture images and record a video, but what is the next step?
The video will be stored until needed for playback. There are three possible storage methods used in video
surveillance: On-premises, Cloud-based, and Hybrid.
Architecture
Did you know?
Genetec offers a Hybrid architecture that enables a mix of on-premises and cloud-based capabilities to be operated
within the same deployment. This gives you the flexibility to combine both a local storage infrastructure with a cloud
storage, or federate cloud-based video surveillance. You can also store and share all collected evidence within a
secure cloud portal.
Cloud storage
An on-premises data solution is defined
as a hardware system where the data is
stored on a server. The information
stored remains in the organization
environment and can be retrieved at
any moment from your own server.
Unlike the on-premises method, the cloud is
not physically accessible. It is an immense
system of remote servers reachable from
everywhere in the world. These numerous
servers are virtually bound together to
function as a single system.
