Pivot3, a provider of intelligent hyperconverged infrastructure solutions for mission-critical video, has announced significant automation and intelligence improvements to its Acuity software platform to address system administration, maintenance and availability challenges often faced in large-scale video surveillance deployments
The features of intelligent system health and best practices analysis provide significant reductions in total ownership costs, ensure 24 x 7 system uptime in large multi-petabyte environments, and allow customers to automate end-to-end system lifecycle management processes while ensuring high availability.
Ben Bolles, vice-president of product management, Pivot3, said, “Customers who have safety and security responsibilities are increasingly required to manage large deployments of servers and storage due to the number and resolution of cameras, the increasing use of video analytics and other leading-edge security applications.
“The sheer scale of these deployments presents new management challenges for security personnel to keep systems up-to-date and to operate at peak performance and efficiency. Pivot3 is meeting this growing challenge with expanded automation and intelligence capabilities to provide customers with peace of mind, knowing their system is operating at its utmost level of resilience and performance.”
Pivot3 Intelligence Engine is at the core of Pivot3’s Acuity software platform. The Intelligence Engine includes many automated system management capabilities, including performance optimisation, data protection, self-healing, system health monitoring, and analytics shared with the Support Cloud of Pivot3.
This automates traditionally time-consuming system administration and maintenance tasks to reduce operating expenses and allows organisations with fewer specialised IT skills to expand and improve their physical security posture.
Pivot3’s Intelligence Engine now includes features optimised for large-scale environments by system-level upgrade orchestration and health and best practices analyser. The Upgrade Manager is designed to simplify end-to-end system updates by automating mundane system administration tasks, resulting in improved lifecycle management of large-scale systems and a reduction in the specialized skills needed for these sophisticated deployments to be carried out.
The health and best practices analyser automatically verifies system health and detects anomalies for individual appliances as well as system-wide. The system also ensures that best practices for delivering 24 X 7 system uptime and availability are observed to lower the risks and liabilities associated with recording and accessing video evidence.
