Data Sheet

Wasabi Surveillance
Cloud
In the surveillance world, video storage needs are growing rapidly due
to the proliferation of cameras, increased retention requirements, andhigher resolution recordings. This is why medium to large organizations
in particular need to be aware of the storage burden they are taking on
and how best to manage it. If the cost of storage exceeds the value
realized by storing the video, it gets thrown away. Faced with expanding
storage needs, leveraging on-site, centralized storage alone is simply
inefficient. It’s becoming complex, inefficient, and expensive.
Centralized storage requires perpetual maintenance such as managing
software releases, patches, and bug fixes. It also requires capacityand performance planning, as well as technology refresh cycles.
Increasingly, security organizations and businesses are beginningto adopt cloud storage as a way to reduce video storage complexity
and costs. As they do so, one of the main obstacles that they faceis converting the file-based format to a cloud object storage format.
AWS’s S3 API has quickly become the standard protocol for accessing
cloud services. Many surveillance Video Management Software (VMS)
applications, servers, and storage devices lack a native S3 API interface
to cloud storage, leaving surveillance teams unable to access cloudstorage services.

Benefits of Wasabi
Surveillance Cloud:• Always have free space
available• Preserve current operations• No more periodic equipment
upgrades and data migration
hassles• No floor space required• Far more reliable than most
local storage• Protection from ransomware• Restore data from cloud if
local drives fail or video islost

Wasabi Surveillance Cloud changes that. Wasabi Surveillance Cloud is
a Windows application that runs on a Windows File Server and migrates
video files from on-site recording servers to Wasabi cloud storage.
Using Wasabi Surveillance Cloud Storage, organizations keep thestorage features that their on-site storage offers without ever runningout of capacity.

Moving “Cold Video Files” to the Cloud
Upon its creation, video surveillance files are considered hot. Hot video
files are active and are usually accessed by VMS, analytics and otherapplications. If video files haven’t been accessed in the last 90 days,
it cools very rapidly and the probability of it being accessed drops
dramatically. 75 to 90 percent of video files are cold and consume
primary storage capacity on-site. With Wasabi Surveillance Cloud, 80%
or more of an organization’s video files, on average, can be off-loaded
from on-site storage to lower-cost Wasabi cloud storage, freeing
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Surveillance Cloud, they can set policies that determine which files automatically move to the cloud. Thiscan be done when on-site storage capacity hits a specific limit or when files have not been accessed in acertain amount of time: i.e. “cold video.” Minimum retention time on-prem for video is 1 hour before being
moved to the cloud but the average time organizations keep video local is 3-5 days.

Cost Savings
Every terabyte of video removed from existing primary storage generates real savings by delaying thesubstantial cost of adding additional on-site storage. This includes not just the cost of the hardware, butalso the licensing and maintenance costs, network costs, energy costs, and datacenter costs.
Wasabi Surveillance Cloud takes the stress out of storage management. It offers organizations theavailability, capacity, durability, performance, and scalability that they want storage to enable for their data
and their video assets. It simultaneously removes all the hidden costs and overlooked time associatedwith managing it.

Simple to Use. No Disruption. Access Video as Usual.
The Wasabi Surveillance Cloud solution is hands-free and automatic. It requires minimal effort fromadministrators and has no impact on users and applications. Video migration to the cloud is performed
seamlessly and automatically based on the storage policy you define. During the process, video always
remains available while capacity is freed on the primary and secondary recording servers. Users andapplications still access the off-loaded video in the same manner as when it was onsite; via the same
source, same directory, and in the same way—even in the cloud. All video stored in the Wasabi cloud isconsidered “hot” and is readily available.

How It Works
Wasabi Surveillance Cloud installs on a Microsoft Windows® server in five minutes without rebooting and
immediately optimizes your storage and protects your video. There is no client software needed on end
user devices. Video files moved to the cloud are replaced with zero-byte stub files in the NTFS file system.
These stub files are placeholders that allow applications to function normally, as if the video exists in its
original location.

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Protects from Ransomware, Accidental Loss
Users can enable the disaster recovery feature of Wasabi Surveillance Cloud making a direct 1 to 1 copyof the video file, now having one copy local and one in the cloud. Additionally, Wasabi Surveillance Cloudcan be “immutable,” meaning that the video stored in the Wasabi cloud cannot be modified or erased.
Ransomware can attack local, on-site files but cannot attack the cloud copies. Nobody can accidentally or
maliciously destroy the video that is stored using Wasabi Surveillance Cloud and immutable buckets.

Disaster-proof your file storage
If the local, on-premises storage fails, the replacement hardware can be repopulated with file stubs fromthe cloud within minutes. There is no need to wait for all files to be restored. Users and applications canstart accessing their video almost immediately.

SummaryWasabi Surveillance Cloud provides organizations the ability to offload infrequently accessed video fromtheir on-site servers, but still keep it available and retrievable within milliseconds. Offloading video frees
up on-site capacity effectively making it “bottomless.” No client software is needed on end user devices.
All files are visible from the primary storage, appearing to reside on-site regardless of whether they
have been offloaded to the cloud. All video in the Wasabi cloud retains its original meta-data properties
including creation and access times, ownership, content, protection and security. It is simple to use andeasy to understand.

System Requirements
You can install Wasabi Surveillance Cloud on a computer that meets these minimum system
requirements:•

64-bit Microsoft Windows® 7/Server 2008 R2/Windows® 8/Server 2012/Server 2012 R2/Windows® 10/Server 2016/Server 2019/Server 2022•

Important: Microsoft Windows® 7/Server 2008 R2 computers must run at least Service Pack 1
and have the KB976932 and the KB3033929 security updates installed.

•4 GB of physical RAM (at least)•100 MB of available hard-disk space for installation (at least)•Microsoft .NET 4.8 Framework needs to be installed

ABOUT WASABI
Wasabi provides simple, predictable and affordable hot cloud storage for businesses all over the world.
It enables organizations to store and instantly access an unlimited amount of data at 1/5th the priceof the competition with no complex tiers or unpredictable egress fees. Trusted by tens of thousands ofcustomers worldwide, Wasabi has been recognized as one of technology’s fastest-growing and mostvisionary companies. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and JeffFlowers, Wasabi is a privately held company based in Boston. Wasabi is a Proud Partner of the Boston RedSox, and the Official Cloud Storage Partner of Liverpool Football Club and the Boston Bruins.

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