Smart Cities and Security

As video and image data grows, onsite server storage may not cut it anymore. Video surveillance in particular results in a steady flow of data that needs to be stored and, often, analyzed. When most cities first adopted video and image recording as an ongoing effort, those recordings were kept on premises via tape, local servers, or NAS. 
 
However, on-prem servers face obsoletion and come with maintenance costs. Stored data tapes can physically degrade and aren’t able to provide the immediate access and analytics capabilities that newer data storage technologies can. More cameras with better resolutions lead to higher data volumes and, in combination with many smart cities’ longer data retention requirements, there is an increasing need for more dynamic, cloud-based storage. 
 
Lyve Cloud can integrate with a smart city’s video surveillance-as-a-servce (VSaaS) system, providing expansive room for video and image files with easy access for immediate retrieval and analysis (with a steady network connection). It also helps alleviate on-premises hardware concerns, utilizing state-of-the-art Seagate storage with professional maintenance. Users pay only for the capacity used, helping to lower TCO for hosted video surveillance applications.

When it comes to protecting critical video and image data, Lyve Cloud provides a resilient, object immutable backup solution. Its built-in security meets the most stringent standards while its proven reliability and predictable storage costs (you only pay for storage used—that’s it) make it a viable data safety net that smart cities can rely on for the long haul.

If your city’s surveillance efforts began with analog cameras, tape may have been your go-to storage solution. The problem is—it's often costly and time consuming to maintain, and actually accessing the data stored on tape can be tricky. With today’s digital streaming devices though, things are different. Data can be easily migrated and stored in the cloud. Here’s how …

Our team takes care of the entire process from start to finish. We’ll quickly and efficiently move your tape-based data (while adhering to all of your security standards) to Lyve Cloud. There, it’ll live in infinitely scalable, highly secure, S3-compatible object storage. You’ll only pay for the storage used—no fees for egress or API calls, ever.

With your city’s video and image data in Lyve Cloud, you can leverage AI, machine learning, and other analytics applications to unlock new insights and value.

Lyve Cloud object storage is designed to tear down barriers between different cloud environments, giving you true multicloud freedom. With no egress or API fees, you can move your data seamlessly across private, public, and compute clouds—building your data mesh network so you can access information wherever and whenever you need it. 

Get up and running fast with user-friendly application integration and Lyve Cloud’s S3-compatible interface. Seagate works with industry-leading providers to ensure compatibility between Lyve Cloud and partner solutions for the best possible user experience. By enabling data to move seamlessly between services from multiple cloud providers without penalties or added cost, Lyve Cloud lets enterprises more easily connect their mass data sets to compute resources and various applications in the cloud. 

Over the years at Seagate, we—like most enterprises—have met countless roadblocks that slowed down our AI and machine learning operations. But unlike most, we have over 40 years of data storage expertise. This put us in the unique position to craft a solution with the help of our trusted technology partners. Meet Lyve Cloud Analytics.

It’s a full-stack platform that lets you harness the freedom and scalability of open data lake architecture. Now you can speed up DataOps (such as AI and machine learning) by harnessing the essentials—frictionless object storage, flexible compute resources, and pre-built analytic accelerators—in one beautifully integrated, cost-effective place.