Surveillance Bridge - XProtect Plug-in
Seamless disaster recovery & storage extension to the cloud. Protect camera data, minimize costs.
Updated on Friday, June 9, 2023
Surveillance Bridge by Tiger Surveillance enables seamless capacity expansion and the fastest possible disaster recovery with the cloud provider of your choice. This software-only native MIP plug-in works with any tier of cloud storage and significantly reduces your overall storage costs forever.
What is needed
From Tiger Surveillance
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Surveillance Bridge
From Milestone Systems
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Milestone XProtect
Featured content
Customer Stories
EMC Insurance Case Study
Surveillance Bridge enabled EMC to meet their video retention goals while reducing storage costs.
Overview
How it works
How to install
Overview
Surveillance Bridge - XProtect Plug-in - Seamless disaster recovery & storage extension to the cloud. Protect camera data, minimize costs.
Surveillance Bridge is a software only HSM policy and tiering solution that transparently extends the XProtect VMS local volume to on-premise Object or Public Cloud, NAS, or Tape.Bridge simply installs on the physical or virtual VMS server extending the local file system capabilities by intelligently managing the placement of files based on user defined policies.
With Bridge, XProtect VMS can use private, public, or hybrid cloud storage natively with NO dedicated volume mounts for file staging, NO gateway servers, and NO complicated database management.
Bridge policies provide: Replication for fast file access with local and target file copies; Reclaim for capacity management with local stub files and full copy on the target; Supports low-cost cloud archive tier for storage of infrequently accessed files. Multiple sites can be synchronized then automatically, or on-demand, restore new or changed files. Supports Active Directory and preserves file security descriptors including ACLs.
Key features
- Seamless XProtect plugin, files remain native, NO hardware gateway or added IT complexities.
- Makes cloud storage a native extension of XProtect local live drive or any archive storage volume
- Supports on-premises object storage and all public cloud providers & tiers including archive classes such as Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
- Preserves file permissions and ACL
- Ideal for capacity expansion and disaster recovery.
How it works
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Surveillance Bridge is the ultimate on-premises-first hybrid data management solution for organizations that want to improve their surveillance capabilities without disrupting their operations.
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Milestone Community Spotlight - Tiger Technology
Goal Statement: I need to leverage the cloud to extend my XProtect video retention.
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Milestone Community Spotlight - Tiger Technology - Storage Bridge XProtect Plug-in
Goal Statement: I need to store a copy of my recorded video to the cloud to be prepared when a disaster strikes
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Watch the video to find out how to set up Storage Bridge, our data management plug-in for Milestone XProtect, for cloud-enabled disaster recovery.
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Watch the video to find out how to set up Storage Bridge for unlimited storage extension to the cloud.
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Intro to Surveillance Bridge core capabilities.
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XProtect Smart Client Settings
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Configuring Surveillance Bridge for storage extension
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Configuring Surveillance Bridge for Disaster Recovery
How to install
Documentation
This is where you can find additional documentation
| Storage Bridge Installation and Administration Guide | pdf Download (2.57 MB) |
| Surveillance Bridge 2.0 Administration Guide | pdf Download (3.78 MB) |
| Surveillance Bridge - Verified by Milestone | pdf Download (67.52 KB) |
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Specification
Required Tiger Surveillance product(s)
Storage Bridge 1.1.x or newer
Has proven compatibility with the following Milestone versions:
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XProtectExpress2019 R2, 06/19 2019
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XProtectProfessional2019 R2, 06/19 2019
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XProtectExpress+2023 R1, 03/07 2023
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XProtectCorporate2023 R1, 03/07 2023
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XProtectExpert2023 R1, 03/07 2023
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XProtectEssential+2023 R1, 03/07 2023
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XProtectProfessional+2023 R1, 03/07 2023
Is also expected to work with:
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XProtectExpress2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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XProtectProfessional2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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XProtectExpress+2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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XProtectCorporate2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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XProtectExpert2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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XProtectEssential+2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
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XProtectProfessional+2018 R3, 10/02 2018 and later
Country availability
Your location is: United States
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