An Intelligent Power Saving feature will be incorporated into V6 of Wavestore’s video management software (VMS) which will be launched early 2015. It has been developed by Wavestore’s talented engineering team to help organisations reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of a video surveillance and minimise the impact on their carbon footprint. It does so by enabling individual or arrays of drives not being written to or read from, to be automatically spun down.
Wavestore has delivered low power video recording solutions over many years. However, the increased deployment of megapixel cameras has created a significant increase in hard drive storage volume requirements. The new power management feature offers a potential power saving of up to 90% compared to the cost of a hard drive that is spinning continuously and equally important, there are the additional benefits of reducing air conditioning power requirements and an increase in the operating life of hard drives.
The intelligent power saving feature can be applied to any Wavestore video recording and management system, from single servers with a few hard drives, through to very large data centre server systems with RAID, redundancy and failover.
This power management capability is a development of Wavestore’s established Large Allocation Storage System (LASS), which does not use a traditional file system, with all of the traditional overheads and potential points of failure, but it stores indexes and video data directly to disk in only two levels and in a linear write format. The benefits of this approach include the ability to write and read data instantly, regardless of how large the data storage system is.
