Federal Video Surveillance Market and Intelligent Data Storage: Insights and Benefits of the EMC Isilon Solution

A recent EMC-sponsored MeriTalk survey1, involving over 150 federal agency video surveillance experts and leaders, reports that 99% of federal agencies believe video surveillance technology will improve their agency’s operations and ability to prevent crime, theft, and terrorism over the next five years. The survey also reveals that 79% believe their agency needs to improve collaboration between IT managers and physical security managers in order to improve video surveillance programs, where they have estimated that 54% of video surveillance data remains unanalyzed. However, the MeriTalk report also highlights the areas where the integration of Big Data analytics and video could have the greatest impact, including: