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Cisco has launched Video Surveillance software on its unified computing System platform to be used by more than 11,000 customers.
By visualizing Cisco Video Surveillance software, Cisco is providing significantly improved levels of performance, scalability, agility and manageability.
The visualization of these solutions with Cisco Unified Data Center applications is part of Cisco's strategy of optimized IP network and physical security foundation.
The announcement is the next step in Cisco's physical security strategy, providing customers with hyper-scalability and capacity, lower cost of ownership and simplified management.
According to Guido Jouret, general manager, Enterprise Video Group, Cisco, virtualizing video surveillance offers organizations reduced infrastructure costs, faster disaster recovery and deployment, reduced staffing needs and cooling costs and improved application performance.
The software provides customers with a combination of Cisco physical security products, services, third-party products and systems, and core networking, data center, video and collaboration offerings to support business needs.
The video surveillance manager on UCS solution represents the first Cisco Video Surveillance building block that meets the deployment requirements for large-scale city, transportation, healthcare and energy requirements.
The software release 6.3.2 is available on UCS Express and will be seen on other platforms including Cisco UCS B and C Series in June 2012. Pricing for the UCS Express-based solution block starts from $2,500.