Video Surveillance Storage / Hard Drives: 3 Companies

Intransa offers a clustered storage solution and NVRs for IP video management systems. Intransa optimizes their storage solution for video surveillance and allows organizations to scale to hundreds of TBs of storage. Intransa's primary direct competitor is Pivot3 but they also compete with general storage providers such as EMC and Dell. In June 2009, Intransa announced a series of NVRs that pre-loads leading IP video software offerings.

Pivot3 offers a clustered storage solution for IP video management systems. Pivot3 optimizes their storage solution for video surveillance and allows organizations to scale to hundreds of TBs of storage. In August 2008, Pivot3 announced a serverless computer initiative that would allow Pivot3's storage clusters to run IP video surveillance software, thereby eliminating application servers. Pivot3's primary direct competitor is Intransa but they also compete with general storage providers such as EMC and Dell. Read a report examining the value of clustered storage such as Pivot3's.

QNAP offers NVR appliances. QNAP leverages its experience in manufacturing Network Attached Storage appliances to build solid, inexpensive NVR appliances for small camera counts. QNAP's NVRs support a modest variety of IP cameras are best positioned for home and small business market segments who are looking to replace DVR systems.