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Hitachi Video Management Platform
Empower Your Video Analytics, Security and Monitoring With a Reliable Enterprise-Level, Converged
Video Solution – That Also Protects Your Reputation
Today’s security threats are more sophisticated and
intelligent than ever. If you’re a security or IT manager,
you need to be at the top of your technology game
to ensure the safety of the people, property and
information you protect. Evidence is everything, and
often required by law. So video files must be available
on demand, 24/7, regardless of how many cameras
you are managing at one time. To add to this challenge,
video analytics, video management systems (VMS)
and other advanced video solutions that help improve
operations and safety require large amounts of fast, high
quality video that doesn’t skip a beat.
Existing solutions aren’t cutting it. Because of the
increasing requirements of video volume, quality and
speed, many traditional solutions fall short. The continual onslaught of more and more video data can slow
down your network, reduce availability and degrade
quality. If your data resides on a shared IT network,
it could be vulnerable to system threats and downtime. If you’re unable to scale your system adequately
because of storage costs, you won’t get the coverage
you need. Some large-scale systems will start losing
data and you will notice the loss only when you need
to retrieve the data. When every second of footage
counts, lost data means more than just lost footage.
It’s lost evidence, lost revenue, or lost insight.
Overview
Hitachi Video Management Platform (VMP) offers a
video surveillance solution for industries – such as
energy and utilities, manufacturing, retail, entertainment, finance, and healthcare – by providing a scalable
and reliable solution that minimizes your vulnerability to
today’s threats, and empowers the video innovations
you will need in the future.
VMP was built from the ground up to store and
manage video data. It incorporates proven Hitachi
storage technology with the ability to segment, store,
scale and secure data. This enables the consistent
mitigation and management of threats, an important
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objective for any security or IT leader who
manages video. Reliable data storage is
critical in order to mitigate potential risk and
avoid compliance challenges. This requires
a storage framework to connect data from
physical security systems using a converged
approach for video and information security,
operational security, and physical security.
Video surveillance professionals today are
increasingly concerned with the quality of
images, the availability of critical video for
evidence, and retention and security of data.
Today’s environments look more like traditional IT infrastructure. Video applications run
on virtualized servers, which enable systems
to scale more easily than they could when
components such as archivers and master
servers were bound to physical hardware.
Without proper design, systems won’t scale,
resulting in poor performance or even lost
frames and data. No matter how advanced
your video management software or video
analytics are, poor performing storage and
lost data will render innovative software inaccurate and essentially useless.
Video monitoring and management is a key market
where digitalization can offer profound benefits. However,
the move to digital has been slow due in large part to
the limitations of existing solutions and a reliance on
legacy technologies like analog video. With its Video
Management Platform, Hitachi is addressing a major gap
in the video storage market that has prevented physical
security solutions from evolving to embrace IoT. Hitachi
Video Management Platform has the ability to segment,
store, scale, and secure video data, which can mitigate
and manage threats consistently and with clarity. It helps
to bridge the digital and physical divide, helping IT and
physical security teams to work more effectively together
to deliver a holistic program for their organizations. Pierre Bourgeix,
Vice President, SecureState
Hitachi Video Management
Platform
Hitachi Video Management Platform is an
enterprise-level converged solution that
integrates compute, network storage and
virtualization software. It is designed as a
vendor-agnostic platform optimized to host
multiple digital video management systems,
Hitachi Visualization Suite and analytics software. It bridges the gap between information
technology (IT), operational technology (OT)
and physical security due to its ability to store
and segment data, and scale cost-effectively.
Of particular value are its information retrieval
capabilities and the clarity of its video resolution. It is engineered to give you scalability,
high throughput, redundancy and fault-tolerance that is unmatched in the industry. It
scales from 150 to an unlimited number of
cameras, and supports top-tier video management software vendors.
Key Benefits
Segmentation: With Hitachi VMP, data does
not have to reside on the IT or corporate
network. Therefore, it does not compromise
network resiliency. If video data resides on a
shared IT network, it could be vulnerable to
system threats and downtime. Segmenting
and segregating video data can also help
organizations comply with regulations. Noncompliance with video security regulations can
cost as much as US$10,000 per day for the
Non-compliance with video security regulations can cost
thousands of dollars per day.
energy industry1. With VMP, your data is safe
to access at all times.
Scalable Storage Made Easy: By using a
virtualized approach to storage, Hitachi VMP
enables organizations to smoothly scale their
storage to meet their individual requirements
across the enterprise and even around the
world. As your needs grow, your environment
can quickly scale to meet that growth – with
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INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS FOR HITACHI VIDEO MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
Energy and Utilities: This industry has increased scrutiny as the result of the high-profile Metcalf attack, in which a substation was disabled
without proper response. The incident led to new regulation and compliance requirements under NERC CIP 14 R5 and R6. These regulations
require a system to be in place to detect, recognize, and mitigate risk through response and validation. Hitachi VMP can help you meet these
requirements by reliably maintaining data from consistent monitoring of substations and main distribution hubs.
Manufacturing: The security landscape in manufacturing has shifted over the years from passive and reactive to proactive as the
industry has become increasingly concerned about a wide range of potential threats – from food supply contamination to insider
espionage of classified information. New regulations involving the logistical chain of custody also have been adopted with the goal of
protecting not only product manufacturing but also product distribution. Some of these regulations, including ITAR and ISO270001,
include guidelines for physical and logical security controls.
Hitachi VMP can help you meet these guidelines by providing a dynamic end-to-end solution with data scalability. In addition, VMP
can help manufacturers reduce shrinkage and minimize employee and process inefficiencies.
Retail: In recent years, security issues in the retail industry have centered on payment card information (PCI), with the goal of protecting credit
card data. But loss prevention and asset protection remain critical as theft and shrinkage are ongoing threats. Accordingly, retailer IT and risk
departments are working together toward a holistic approach to security that ensures quality video along with stable and scalable storage.
Retailers have begun to map threat to risk, which has pushed companies to seek more stable, reliable, and segmented systems that secure
data and do not affect their network environments.
Financial Services: The banking sector has long been the most regulated and scrutinized industry for security and processes. The industry
has had to establish many forms of cyber and physical controls that have created a greater need for data storage and scalability. FINRA and
other regulations make video resolution critical for the financial services industry. Also critical is the ability to review and store clear, concise
and actionable data in a scalable and stable manner. Hitachi VMP is well suited to meeting all of these requirements.
Healthcare: Key healthcare regulations such as HIPAA, and HIPAA’s newly created overseer, HITRUST, are transforming the way
business is transacted between the public and hospitals, clinics and business associates. Compliance increasingly requires physical
controls such as CCTV, access control and analytics to discover and validate potential threats and anomalies that could cause an
information breach or a breach of the physical premises. The high resolution and unmatched scalability of Hitachi Video Management
Platform helps ensure that when a threat is detected it can be reviewed and mediated to provide conclusive evidence that can lead to
the arrest of the perpetrator – even if the incident is not detected until after the fact.
high stability and reliability that are part of the
system’s simplicity and redundancy. Data is no
longer a hindrance to risk-based security and
compliance processes because storage is not
vulnerable to interruptions and you don’t risk
running out of storage.
Cost-Effective Compliance and Scale: In
the world of risk and compliance there is a
growing need to implement security solutions that mitigate potential and ever-present
threats. But without the ability to maintain
the data that comes from hourly, daily, and
weekly threats, the potential for a knowledge
gap is great. With VMP, you can reach a level
of protection from potential liability by maintaining this threat information in a segmented,
scalable, and secure environment, which
immediately enhances your organization’s
defensible position for compliance and risk.
Virtualization not only reduces the complexity of scaling up, it also reduces the
costs, footprint, and energy consumption
of the system.
Additionally, Hitachi Video Management
Platform can help make organizations using
video analytics and VMS more productive
and efficient, while also enhancing employee
safety and protecting critical assets.
Finally, another attribute to cost effectiveness is VMP rapid deployment which
reduces the time and costs of configuration and allows facilities to be up and
running quickly.
The Hitachi Advantage
Hitachi VMP offers a robust platform to
expand your security profile by keeping up
with the merging of IT and physical security.
This is in sharp contrast to other providers
that deliver only a portion of the solution,
offering products that operate as silos,
separate from other elements required for
a complete holistic solution. VMP lets you
increase your organization’s effectiveness
and overall value based on its converged
architecture. VMP is one of the only storage
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solutions that can optimize integration with
IT and physical security, such as access
control and CCTV, and operational technology, such as SCADA controls.
You’ll get up and running faster with Hitachi
VMP. With other offerings, unless you buy
consulting or installation services, you typically buy the raw hardware and assemble
and configure it yourself — a process that
can take a significant amount of effort. But
by preassembling and preconfiguring your
solution, Hitachi saves you valuable time
and resources.
MARKET-LEADING PARTNERS FOR COMPLETE VIDEO SECURITY AND
MONITORING SOLUTIONS
Gain a trusted vendor team with high-quality, complete solutions. Hitachi VMP
partners include:
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Genetec
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Verint
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Milestone Systems
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Qognify
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OnSSI
Hitachi Video Management Platform is part
of a family of products from a company with
decades of data storage and IT experience.
It is also part of an ecosystem of providers
that, together, can meet an organization’s
total risk and compliance needs. Only
Hitachi can be your one-stop shop provider.
Conclusion
Hitachi Video Management Platform was
designed specifically with the needs of
video surveillance, analytics, and VMS innovations in mind. The design is simple but
unique and adds elements that increase
performance while maximizing surveillance
capabilities. Organizations can help protect
themselves from potential liability and also
enhance cost-effectiveness by maintaining
video surveillance data in the segmented,
scalable and secure environment provided
by Hitachi VMP. Both security and IT personnel can have peace of mind knowing
that Hitachi VMP is fast, reliable and secure,
and will capture those critical moments
that make video security and monitoring
systems effective in keeping people and
property safe.
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