Cisco Unveils Video Surveillance Software On Its UCS Platform

Cisco has announced the availability of Cisco Video Surveillance software on its Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform, currently in use by over 11,000 customers.

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 $2500.

This announcement is the next step in Cisco’s physical security strategy, providing customers with hyper-scalability and capacity, lower cost of ownership and simplified management.

The Video Surveillance Manager on UCS solution represents the first Cisco Video Surveillance Building Block that meets the deployment requirements for large-scale city, transportation, healthcare and energy requirements.

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Modular UCS platform building blocks support massive scalability increases of up to 1,000 percent versus dedicated server solutions, allowing customers to scale to tens of thousands of cameras, delivering networked video surveillance for commercial, disaster and first responder needs, as well as large events.

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

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

“Virtualising video surveillance offers organisations 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 virtualising all Cisco software applications with Cisco Unified Data Center applications to support optimal end-to-end video quality,” said Guido Jouret, general manager, Enterprise Video Group, Cisco.