Embrace cloud on your terms
Expand your cloud capabilities at your own pace with Milestone’s flexible pure and hybrid cloud deployments.
The best of all worlds
As everyone explores the business opportunities of cloud computing, Milestone gives you the freedom to do so with minimal friction. Embrace the flexibility and scalability of cloud-based video surveillance with the deployment that works best for you. Choose from a range of options including a pure cloud VSaaS, and seamless hybrid with XProtect. It’s the reliable, low-hassle way to meet current demands and adapt to new ones.
“The reality of what I call chasing the retail market for storage is not tenable... we needed to get out of the hardware buying game. The hybrid approach allows us to meet the organization’s needs without breaking the budget.”
Tracy Gaynor, Director of Information Technology, City of Fishers, Indiana
Explore your deployment options
Arcules
XProtect – Arcules hybrid
Cloud-hosted XProtect
Cloud-based XProtect
Arcules
With Arcules video surveillance as a service (VSaaS), all your applications are hosted and/or processed in the cloud while only edge devices, sensors, and IoT appliances remain on-premises. It provides a simple way to manage your video systems across multiple sites.
- Minimize the IT expertise required for installation
- Reduce or eliminate hardware costs
- Access AI-based video search and analytics
- Keep your existing devices and avoid lock-in
- Count on Google Cloud security
- Automate maintenance tasks
- Reduce upfront costs with a flexible subscription model
Scale and centralize with ease
This is a good choice for when you want to keep your video storage and/or management on-premises at your IT headquarters, while managing remote sites with minimal effort and maintenance. Arcules is installed at the remote sites and feeds all live video, recordings and alarms into the central XProtect installation.
- Customize your on-premises and cloud mix
- Connect and centralize multiple sites
- Count on highly secure, redundant storage
- Automate maintenance tasks and proactively mitigate security threats
Rapidly scale without hardware
This option uses public cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The infrastructure and data are kept in the cloud, eliminating the need for physical servers and hardware. It’s an ideal choice for companies with a cloud-first strategy, or that frequently scale.
- Manage single or multisite installations
- Quickly scale and manage data growth
- Customize with integrations
- Experiment with cloud deployment
- Reduce or eliminate hardware costs and maintenance
- Count on Amazon, Microsoft or Google security
Extend your storage into the cloud
This deployment is ideal for companies just beginning their cloud journey. It provides an offramp from more expensive on-premises hardware, while fulfilling the high retention requirements of industries such as the public sector.
- Store video for 45+ days
- Push data to the cloud as needed
- Reduce or eliminate hardware costs and maintenance
- Count on highly secure, redundant storage
- Experiment with cloud deployment
“Now that we’re working with cloud storage, our monthly bill from AWS is less than 10% the annualized cost for a storage unit.”
Tracy Gaynor, Director of Information Technology, City of Fishers, Indiana
Choose between on-prem, cloud or hybrid
The XProtect VMS platform and Arcules VSaaS are powerful on their own, but combined they let you configure the ideal cloud infrastructure for your organization. We'll help you find the best match.
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Award-winning video management software. |
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| VMS functions | Advanced many possibilities | Essential – ease of use | Mixed |
| Camera compatibility | Open | Open | Open |
| Installation | IT Expertise required | Plug-and-play | Site specific |
| Flexibility | High – flexible configuration | Lower – simple configuration | Flexible yet simple |
| Integrations | Platform – open APIs | Fewer managed by Arcules | Some open APIs, some managed |
| Access to new features | Through software updates (Care) | Continuously added (CI/CD) | Site specific |
| Maintenance | Responsibility of end-customer | Part of overall service | Site specific |
| Business model | CapEx | Opex | Mixed |
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