Pine Crest School Installs Pivot3 Appliances

Pivot3, Inc., the provider of
storage and compute appliances, announced that Pine Crest School has deployed Pivot3
appliances to store captured video images and host its video management system.

Pine Crest, a private college preparatory school with two campuses in south
Florida, chose the Pivot3 appliances to unify video storage and server
capabilities, meet video retention requirements and utilize Pivot3’s cost-effective, scale-out approach.

The scale-out nature of the Pivot3 solution ensures that the
performance and capacity of the system can handle the demands of the school’s
more than 200 incoming video streams and offer investment protection over time
as the deployment grows. Milestone’s easy-to-use, yet powerful VMS, which is
based on open architecture, manages video feeds and enables efficiency
and improved functionality, while maintaining cost effectiveness. As a private
school on a tight budget, this approach allowed Pine Crest as a way to
start small and slowly grow their surveillance system over time. The school’s
system began with just one Pivot3 appliance and has since grown to include
eight. They now have more than 200 cameras operating on their Pivot3 appliances
with plans to eventually add another 150 cameras.

"We required a
solution that delivered more than traditional servers while still being cost
effective," said Dan Donato, Facility Systems
Specialist, Pine Crest Schools. "Pivot3
allows us to capture critical video evidence and enables us to easily expand
our capabilities as additional budget is allocated. It also saves us
significantly in upfront and long-term costs."

The scale-out nature of the Pivot3 platform has allowed Pine Crest
to start small and grow, ensuring the performance and capacity of the system
can handle the demands of incoming video streams and add investment protection
over time as the deployment grows. In addition, Pivot3 appliances reduce costs
by consolidating server and shared storage functionality in a common appliance.

"The Pine Crest
installation illustrates perfectly how Milestone open platform IP video
management software integrates seamlessly with hardware from our alliance
partner Pivot3, and how proper storage is key for optimally managing increasing
data needs and adding more cameras, such as IQinVision megapixel devices,"
said Courtney Dillon Pedersen, communications manager, Milestone Systems.

"Pine Crest is a great
example of the cost efficiencies derived from Pivot3’s scale-out Serverless
Computing approach," said Lee Caswell, founder and Chief Strategy
Officer, Pivot3. "It’s now possible
for education customers of any size to get a world-class video surveillance
system that fits the budget and provides a system foundation that can grow as
the institution grows."