DVTel and Winchester Systems Form Strategic Alliance to Advance Knowledge and Penetration of IP Surveillance Solutions; Alliance already showing results with two major joint installations.RIDGEFIELD PARK Ridgefield Park, village (1990 pop. 12,454), Bergen co., NE N.J., on the Hackensack River; inc. 1892. Chiefly residential, it manufactures some paper goods. , N.J. & BURLINGTON, Mass. -- DVTel Inc., multiple award-winning market leader in delivering integrated IP security solutions for surveillance and monitoring, today announced that DVTel and Winchester Systems have entered into a strategic alliance to promote the companies' joint solution, targeted at the growing network video surveillance and management market. Winchester Systems provides high performance, highly available SAN, NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular , direct attached and tiered-storage solutions for entry to enterprise applications. The alliance is off to a fast start with two joint installations at a major Indian casino in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern and a corrections facility in New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). . "DVTel has been promoting opens systems and open platforms since our founding," said Eli Gorovici, DVTel President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Our strategy is to continue to develop creative partnerships and alliances with leading industry players to ensure that we offer the end user a solution comprised of best-in-class components. Joel Leider, CEO at Winchester Systems, concurred, "Like DVTel's open systems, we have been providing open storage solutions for years, and we will continue to provide end-users with cost effective, scalable, systems that are easy to deploy and manage. Together with DVTel we will provide a robust and complete turnkey solution that offers end users the best in video security and surveillance." As part of the agreement, Winchester Systems has dedicated considerable sales and marketing resources to promoting DVTel's Intelligent Security Operations Center A Security Operations Center is a centralised unit in an organisation that deals with security issues. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA; an agency within the US Department of Homeland Security) has implemented Security Operations Centers (referred to as SOC) (iSOC) and its integration with Winchester Systems versatile line of storage solutions. Lab testing has been completed and Winchester Systems products have been DVTel-certified. The cross-promotion of both companies' leading products will help educate the market while offering superior performance and cost-efficiencies for network video surveillance, management, and storage. To this end, the two companies plan a series of upcoming webinars targeted at end users, system's integrators, and architecture & engineering firms to enhance knowledge and understanding of network video management and Winchester's storage solutions. The companies plan to jointly participate in trade shows in 2006 to highlight the combined DVTel-Winchester solution. Joel Leider added, "DVTel is the leading innovator in network based security systems with their award winning software. Our joint customers enjoy the same benefits of lower operational costs and application versatility to address their current and future requirements. By partnering with a leader in this growing market segment, we create a superior solution for our customers." Gorovici again, "Network video is a strong driver of storage demands. It is critical that the end user have a management platform and storage provider that work well together and give them the confidence their system offers the best technology and performance available." About DVTel DVTel is a recognized leader in networked video, audio, and data acquisition, correlation and display solutions. DVTel's award winning products and technologies are utilized to safeguard the lives and assets of our customers around the world--providing them the freedom to focus on running their business. DVTel offers a full-featured, enterprise-wide intelligent Security Operations Centre (iSOC) which comprises a traditional DVR (1) (Digital Video Recorder) A device that records video onto a hard disk from one or more ceiling mounted video cameras. Part of a security system, the DVR typically supports 4, 8 or 16 separate camera channels. , Matrix Switch, and Multiplexer in a single software-based product. What's more, the iSOC is based on a distributed architecture, so the end user can leverage existing analogue products and networking, computer and storage infrastructure. The iSOC is a rule based See rules based. platform that makes real the concept of total Multi-source Intelligent Management by giving the end user the power to acquire information in video, audio and/or data format; administer and analyze this information; and then take appropriate, timely action. The iSOC platform includes a growing family of DVTel proprietary products including SceneTracker Video Stitching Software, CaseBuilder Incident Reporting and Management System, NetTalk Advanced IP Intercom System, Integrated Access Control, and Mentor Agent Recording and Training Software. The Ridgefield Park, NJ-based company is privately held, with offices in the UK, Australia, India, and Israel. For more information, visit the DVTel website at www.dvtel.com. About Winchester Systems Winchester Systems is a leading provider of disk based (1) Refers to devices that use magnetic hard disks for storage. It often refers to portable devices such as digital music players that have hard disks rather than flash memory. All desktop and laptop computers are presumed to have hard disks, and most servers have hard disks. network and direct attach data storage systems. These solutions include high performance iSCSI, SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. , SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. , SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. Fibre Channel and Tiered-Storage RAID arrays, Fibre Channel and IP based SAN's, NAS, and other high performance commercial, rugged and military grade data storage for servers including Windows, Windows Clusters, Linux, Linux Clusters, and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . FlashDisk systems feature Enterprise Class Call Home and 7x24 Call Center monitoring. For more information visit Winchester Systems on the web at www.winsys.com. |
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