Infortrend Selected by Korean Government in Surveillance Projects, Reducing Hardware Footprint by 75%

Infortrend Selected by Korean Government in Surveillance Projects, Reducing Hardware Footprint by 75%

Gangbuk-gu, along with twenty-four other gu, make up the city of Seoul, South Korea. Its governing office direction is to ensure the safety of residents, foster talents to lead the future, becoming green, and is a city for tourists that feature nature, history and culture.

Challenges

• Existing storage solutions are unable to cope with the fast-growing number of CCTV cameras that require performance to quick search and capacity to store data
• Upgrading existing storage solutions meant high cost, space-occupying, complex storage management (non-centralized) while retaining mediocre performances

Requirements

• Scalable performance and storage capacity to meet the needs of the growing number of CCTV cameras
• Compact high-density storage solutions to fit into existing server racks, if not reduce the footprint
• Ease of data storage management

Solution: EonStor GS 3060 + JB 3060

The EonStor GS 3060 and JBOD 3060 are both 4U 60-bay solutions. With 10TB NL SAS 7,200rpm drives, they offer up to 1.2PB in storage capacity while reducing the hardware footprint by approximately 75% over the customer’s outgoing solution. In addition to the compact and high storage density, the performance of EonStor GS solutions allowed fast forward or rewind of recording searches with ease. It also features an intuitive web-based GUI that can oversee all the connected storage enclosures, hard drive statuses, capacity utilization, etc.

Why Infortrend

• Offered better performances over other competitors at the similar price range
• Offered higher storage densities over competitors at the similar price range
• Smaller hardware foot print
• Ease of storage management with a dashboard view
• Prompt response to service calls and hardware maintenance