10 to 200 Petabytes in Three Years!

Taser International has announced a gigantic online video offering for Evidence.com, what appears to be their solution for video surveillance as a service.

What is most interesting is the staggering scale of the deployment.

"This breadth of video traffic requires a compute platform with the capacity to initially manage 10 petabytes of video and ECD data, increasing to 200 petabytes within three years"

Holy frame-rate Batman!

Seriously, numbers like this are a bit hard to comprehend. But if every security guard who has a Taser device is soon "video-enabled" to send a feed to Evidence.com, it shouldn't take long for them to reach these capacity levels.

Taser chose to go with the biggest brands in the industry for their solution (Cisco, VMWare, IBM SAN, Fibre Channel gear) so evidently there is plenty of margin in their business to afford such technology! But achieving this level of scale is not just for corporations with tens of millions of dollars to spend.

With our FLEX Software Platform for file serving and storage, MaxiScale delivers the ability to scale from as few as 4 to as many as 50,000 nodes in a single cluster, all aggregated into a single global namespace. For new web applications (including those such as video surveillance) this provides a highly-scalable, highly-available solution at a fraction of the cost of other offerings. MaxiScale favors commodity hardware for deployment as shown by our recent announcement of the Cloud Computing Starter Kit leveraging Supermicro hardware.

It appears like we are going to see a greater need for petabyte scale across the board, and companies able to use the most affordable technology to get there will prosper!