Physical security vendors are able to deploy their applications on the ISSP, including software for open NVRs, video management, physical security information managers, life safety, access control, video analytics, network intercom, biometrics, compression and workflow systems, while interfacing with hardware devices ranging from card readers to IP network cameras. The ISSP takes full advantage of the unmatched scalability and performance of the Intransa shared, external IP storage area network family.

"Intransa brings proven IT system architectures to security applications" said Ray Bernard, CPP, principal consultant, Ray Bernard Consulting Services and publisher, Security Minute e-newsletter. "This is the kind of reliable, high-performance, high throughput, scalable platform that today's security applications should be running on."

At the GSO 2010 and GSI 2010 technology lab and event series, Intransa StorAlliance Technology Partners have demonstrated their solutions integrated with the company's IP storage. These hands-on scenarios were hosted in GSO lab events at Adobe headquarters in San Jose, California, at The Home Depot in Atlanta, Georgia, and at RAND Corporate Headquarters in Santa Monica, California, and at the GSI lab event in Costa Mesa, California. With the knowledge gained in the many GSO/GSI scenarios, multiple vendor software applications will now be able to move to the next step and use the Intransa Sharable Security Platform with underlying Intransa shared, external IP storage to host their compute and storage requirements.

Applications already demonstrated at the GSO/GSI tech lab events have included products from 21 vendors plus Intransa. These are Axis Communications, AgentVI, Cisco Systems, CommendUSA, CoreStreet, Imprivata, InFront, Kaba, Lenel, Microsoft Corporation, Milestone Systems, OnSSI, Privaris, Proximex, Quantum Secure, Orsus, Red Hat, S2 Security, Software House (Tyco), VMware, and XceedID. These vendors are among those authorized to carry the Intransa Security-Grade IP Video Storage Certified designation for their products, a subset of the nearly 100 applications from physical security and IT vendors so certified by participants in the Intransa StorAlliance program.

"Innovative next generation products are made possible with the Intransa Sharable Security Platform," said Brad Stephenson, vice president, physical security group, Diebold, Incorporated, an Intransa StorPartner, headquartered in Canton, Ohio. "Our customers will benefit from this cost-effective approach."

"Managing and installing the converged global physical security system of the future will bring many opportunities to leverage the IT infrastructure, which will bring real ROI and a lower TCO for the enterprise," said James Connor, Principal, N2N Secure "The one area which traditional IT solutions find themselves in real difficulty is video storage."

Connor continued, "What I find exciting about this technology is that Intransa is ready to exist within these IT environments.