Putting Security Video Data In Its Place: On-site, or Off?
Surveillance video used to be stored mostly on-site on tape, or later on hard disks; bandwidth limitations made it impractical to store it off-site, and the cost of storage meant that surveillance footage not deemed of vital interest was often discarded, and the media re-used. A different story is dominating the world of surveillance footage now, though, as organizations see the value of retaining their video data for a longer time, and of repurposing that