Storage Manufacturers Enter NVR Market

Competition in the NVR market is heating up with a number of new options for video surveillance professionals to consider. In the last few months, well funded startups Intransa and Pivot3 have both launched NVR solutions.

• Intransa's VideoAppliances offers IP video software pre-loaded on Intransa servers. 
• Pivot3's Serverless Computing allows IP video software to be run inside their storage array using virtualization (winning ISC West Best in Show last month)
  

This addresses a key negative in the use of software only and is part of the general trend of appliances making a comeback in the video surveillance market. With the growth of IP video, I expect these offerings to attract serious consideration though they are unlikely to be competitive for smaller deployments and will face strong competition for very large scale sites.