Benefits and summary

Milestone XProtect VMS offers a unique, flexible, and secure storage architecture that utilizes standard IT storage solutions to deliver reliable and high-performance recording of XProtect VMS media streams and data.

The unique archive functionality in the Milestone XProtect products’ storage architecture especially, provides the option to design hybrid storage solutions that utilize the best traits of different disk technologies like; SSD for non-sequential write performance and SATA/SAS for storage capacity, resulting in affordable large-scale high-performance storage solutions for the demanding XProtect VMS installations.

Furthermore, the XProtect VMS storage architecture gives XProtect VMS designers the flexibility to design optimal storage solutions that meet the needs regardless of whether the XProtect VMS is recording just a few cameras, or several hundred cameras in a mission critical installation.

Combining flexible user access permissions, secure database handling that supports encryption and digital signing with the evidence lock functionality for protecting recordings against deletion, the XProtect VMS storage architecture provides an effective solution for securing sensitive and mission critical recordings.

Finally, the XProtect VMS storage architecture is not limited only to usage in the XProtect VMS recording servers. Using the XProtect Smart Client, the recorded media can be exported in the same secure, encrypted, and signed media database format as used in the recording server. Doing so also provides the option to include the XProtect Smart Client – Player for playing back the exported recordings and verifying the integrity of the exported media to prove it has not been tampered with since originally recorded.