Cisco offers virtualized video surveillance

Cisco today announced a virtualized version of its Video Surveillance software for use on its Unified Computing System platform for enterprise- or government-operated video-camera deployments.

The Cisco Unified Computing System platform

Based on the Cisco Unified Computing System platform, the Video Surveillance Manager on UCS is being packaged several ways to appeal to either simpler branch-office use or in large data-center deployments that support hundreds of thousands of video cameras for urban surveillance and protection, in campus environments, the energy sector or the healthcare industry.

By this summer, Cisco will be rolling out virtualized CVS for UCS in modular software packages primarily for data centers with management capabilities that will support hundreds of thousands of cameras, says Geetha Dabir, vice president of Cisco's physical-security business unit. The Cisco video-surveillance software is said to support not only Cisco surveillance cameras, nevertheless several others, including those from Sony.