EMC, which recently expressed its intention to focus more on security, announced last week that it is offering a package geared to manage and analyze surveillance data.
The company’s decision reflects a greater focus within the IT industry not only on software security but on physical security and comes as EMC continues its effort to branch out from storage into other sectors, such as research management and physical security data analysis.
The EMC Surveillance Analysis and Management Solution (SAMS) consists of hardware, software and professional services. Items such as EMC storage arrays and content-addressed storage systems are included in the bundle, as well as additional capabilities such as video cameras, which are provided by partnerships with security providers.
The package is designed to appeal to organizations that deal with a large amount of surveillance data-video footage or key card information, for example – and need to create a comprehensive system to utilize and analyze that data.
SAMS has been picked up by the commonwealth of Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice to be used in its 30 facilities, which are separated into five levels of security.
“The SAMS solution allows an analytic review of any number of flagged events,” says Michael Dossett, deputy commissioner of the department.
“The key to this particular project is that we needed a scalable architecture that is turnkey. It addresses all of our key goals, but more importantly it gives us the ability to determine how each [piece of equipment] is used. ” . . . It is a turnkey solution in terms of hardware and software.”
SAMS is available immediately, but EMC declined to provide pricing information.
