Convergence Overview and News

The convergence of IT and security functionalities is one of the most important trends in video surveillance.

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How IT is Transforming the Security Business
Review from ipvideomarket.info on Nov 12
While technical skill sets and competencies dominate the discussions surrounding "convergence," it is the differences in the channels of product delivery between the IT and Security industries that will have the...

Should Manufacturers Sell Direct to End Users?
Review from ipvideomarket.info on Nov 10
An insane idea today will become reality over the next 10 years. Driven by the Internet and accelerated by the recession, the role of the integrator as powerful intermediary will diminish greatly. This wil...

Top 3 Problems with Choosing Open Systems
Review from ipvideomarket.info on Aug 21
While being 'open' is the trend, 'openness' is vague, claimed by all and underestimated in its difficulty to achieve. If you are buying or specifying video management systems, you need to carefully consider this...

Understanding Video Surveillance APIs
Review from ipvideomarket.info on Aug 15
While APIs are the key to open platforms, they are a frequently misunderstood and over-hyped aspect of physical security. While APIs can provide great benefits, using them is much more complex than often mentio...

Why IT will not Take Over Security
Review from ipvideomarket.info on Jun 25
Automation is a powerful economic force, one that will ultimately make IT irrelevant to physical security. It may seem paradoxical but the same force that makes information technology ubiquitous will make IT ir...

Will Security Integrators Survive IT Convergence?
Review from ipvideomarket.info on Jun 12
Many believe security integrators are dead; walking dinosaurs who are oblivious to their impending extinction. Indeed, many new IT entrants certainly wish that security integrators (and physical security manage...

Bandwidth Tutorial for IP Video Surveillance Systems
Review from ipvideomarket.info on Jun 08
When using IP cameras, Megapixel cameras, NVRs or even DVRs, understanding the basics about how much bandwidth is available and how much is needed is critical in planning, designing and deploying IP video survei...

Why Asymmetric Bandwidth is Important to IP Video Syste
Review from ipvideomarket.info on Jun 08
You may notice that your home cable modem offers greater bandwidth going down to your house than going up to the Internet. For instance, while you may have 3 Mb/s download, you can only upload at 384 Kb/s. This...

How to Read Marketing Material
Review from ipvideomarket.info on May 28
Almost all IP video info is vendor marketing. Good decision making requires critically reading and analyzing this material.At first, I did not believe that most information was vendor marketing material. Obvio...

How to Evaluate New Technology
Review from ipvideomarket.info on May 23
Most new technology fails but when it is successful, the business benefits can be enormous. The challenge then is how to efficiently determine what new technology is legit so that you simultaneously avoid disas...

Risk of Hiring IT Sales People
Review from ipvideomarket.info on May 17
One of the sexiest but riskiest ideas in video surveillance is hiring IT sales people. It's easy to think that we are now moving into IT, the technology is new, the problems are different, the industry is being ...

How to Calculate Video Surveillance ROIs
Review from ipvideomarket.info on May 16
ROI calculations are powerful but can be distorted. While they hold the promise of identifying objective value, they can often obscure the truth. The goal of this review is to help the security manager better ...

The Value of IBM Video Surveillance?
Review from ipvideomarket.info on May 15
Two years since the entrance of IBM into video surveillance, the value of IBM is less clear than ever. Today, SecurityInfoWatch reports on the state of IBM video surveillance and it does not look good for IBM.L...

IT is not transforming Security
Review from ipvideomarket.info on May 03
IT professionals evidently believe the Patriots should replace Belichick with the trainer. According to IT professionals, because injuries are so prevalent in football, salaries are so high and health is so imp...

Breaking Standards is Good
Review from ipvideomarket.info on Apr 26
Attacking proprietary systems is en vogue but it's only breaking from standards where innovation occurs. The irony is IT players entering physical security have most seriously broken standards and their breakin...

PSIM Problems
Review from ipvideomarket.info on Apr 22
PSIM is a great concept but has major structural problems that may limit its utility to the very largest security organizations. Expect video and access systems to continue to add features that provide the most...

Margins Dropping as Competition and Convergence Acceler
Article from sdmmag on Nov 21
Examines the fall in security integrator margins and discusses potential ways to adapt and overcome this trend

Criticizing Old Boy Network of Honeywell and Tyco
Article from csoonline on Nov 12
Steve Hunt Criticizes large incumbent manufacturers for not listening to end users; Hunt: These sales channels lock in customers and dont allow for a lot of freedom or flexibility to build a best-of-breed soluti...

Manufacturer Moves to Direct Sales Business Model
Article from securitysystemsnews on Oct 16
MDI cuts out security dealers, sells direct to end users and increases profits signifcantly

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