Intransa announced an agreement with Surveillance Specialties, Ltd (SURV). Under the terms of the agreement, SURV will integrate and distribute the Intransa EdgeBlock scalable video storage system as an upgrade to extend the life of today's digital video recorders (DVRs) and provide customers with improved reliability, retention and resolution.

Available immediately, the Intransa EdgeBlock will be incorporated by SURV into its existing solutions portfolio. The physical security and video surveillance market is very sensitive to extraordinary costs and the Intransa and SURV agreement is focused on the delivery of solutions that provide low total cost of ownership while facilitating the transition to tomorrow's technological advances, including network cameras and scalable IP storage.

“Intransa's EdgeBlock video storage is a viable solution for the thousands of DVRs that are currently deployed and are suffering from limited storage capacity and high internal disk failure rates as they age,” said Justin Davis, chief operating officer, SURV. “With EdgeBlock, organizations are able to extend the life of their currently installed DVRs, transition into IP-based technology, achieve greater video retention and improve image resolution, all without having to discard existing recording technology. The Intransa EdgeBlock allows organizations to significantly improve upon their security infrastructure, while maximizing their initial DVR investment.”

SURV Scalable DVR Storage Upgrades, based on the Intransa EdgeBlock video storage system, is an upgrade option for many qualified DVRs. The upgrades dramatically improve overall video storage reliability while providing the expansion needed to cover new retention requirements for weeks, months or years of high resolution, high frame rate recording. The upgrades can also facilitate the simultaneous transition into high resolution network surveillance cameras.

The combination of Intransa video storage solutions and SURV expertise in integrated security solutions ensures that customers with existing DVR installations can transition to new technology gracefully while meeting the video surveillance and security needs that are required in a wide range of customer environments including: gaming, government, education, manufacturing, quality assurance, retail, hospitality, transportation, physical security, law enforcement and transportation industries.

“Intransa has taken the lead in the scalable video storage market with cost-effective solutions that support existing video surveillance infrastructure,” said Jeff Whitney, vice president of marketing for Intransa. “The agreement with SURV underscores our continued commitment to the video surveillance market and forges a creative solution to a very large problem faced by thousands of companies and organizations needing improved technology to meet growing challenges, but cannot completely cast off existing operations and start anew. With the SURV Scalable DVR Storage Upgrade program, customers aren't faced with making that kind of transition anymore to get the job done.”

SURV Scalable DVR Storage Upgrades are immediately available.

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