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How to Size NVR Hard Drives Without Guessing (Retention Math That Holds Up) Every integrator has a storage-sizing story with the same shape: the calculator said 30 days, the customer signed for 30 days, and the recorder holds 16. The math w
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CISA Surveillance Cybersecurity Advisory: What Integrators Missed Every time CISA publishes guidance touching physical-security gear — and it has been publishing advisories covering cameras, recorders, and access controllers for years
How to Decide Between Edge Storage and Centralized Recording Every video project eventually reaches the same fork: record at the camera, record at a central server or NVR, or some blend of the two. The debate usually gets argued on cost, an
Why Surveillance Storage RAID Rebuilds Bring Down the Whole Recorder The ticket never says "RAID rebuild." It says "cameras dropping randomly on the main recorder," or "playback is unusable," or my favorite, "the NVR is hacked." You remote
How to Build a Surveillance Audit Trail That Survives Legal Discovery I have watched a slip-and-fall case turn on whether anyone could prove a 42-second clip had not been altered between export and deposition. The video itself was fine. The
Why Analog-to-IP Encoder Retrofits Beat Rip-and-Replace on Coax-Heavy Sites Every few weeks I look at a modernization proposal where a facility with forty working coax cameras is being quoted a full rip-and-replace — new IP cameras at every
Why Mass Door Schedules Bring Down Access Control Servers Most access control teams treat schedule pushes as a config event. You change a holiday rule, click apply, and assume the head-end pushes the new schedule to every controller in roug
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Marty Allison
IP Cameras & VMS
Jerry Tildsen
Access Control & Intercoms
Eden Phillips
Networking & PoE
Karl Wilson
Warehouse Automation
Ted Perry
NVRs & Storage
James Everett
Outdoor & Industrial
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