Pivot3 demonstrated its high-definition video storage solution at the 35^th annual National Conference on Juvenile Justice in St. Louis, Missouri. Pivot3 is credited for inventing HD storage based on distributed RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks). At the conference, Pivot3 demonstrated how its HD storage systems, which support a variety of video and camera surveillance applications, can reduce storage infrastructure costs by as much as 50 percent.

 

Pivot3 makes use of Databanks, multiple networked storage nodes built from industry-standard x86 servers and disk drives. They are connected via Gigabit Ethernet. Databanks contain disk storage as well as processing, caching, and network connections that, support a scalable, flexible storage system.

 

A higher level of space-efficient data protection is added to data transfers by eliminating the need for replicating data between these databanks in Pivot3’s IP-based HD storage system. Not only does this system increase data security, but the Megapixel-optimized Pivot3 HD Storage Systems, which are installed by various municipalities throughout the country, can support up to five times than the data streams of conventional video storage options. Also multi-node systems provide two to three times better performance during failure events than traditional storage solutions that use two-way controllers.

 

Pivot3 storage systems are built on block-level infrastructure virtualization architecture, providing highly available, block storage for data intensive applications.

 

Unlike the direct attached or server based storage often used for video surveillance, Pivot3 storage can be virtually assigned to when and where they are required, without the need for re-cabling. Databanks are automatically discovered and can be assigned to a new virtual array or added to an existing virtual array for more flexibility.