Tag: hosted video
ADT Small Business specialization continues
July 2, 2014Martha Entwistle
BOCA RATON, Fla—ADT, which announced in April that it is going after small business, has two new video offerings for its small business clients: hosted video with cloud storage and, for onsite storage, "smart" DVRs.Luis Orbegoso, president of ADT Small Business, told Security Systems News that the “demand for video has grown dramatically and there is an opportunity for us to offer more flexibility to customers [with these offerings that are both] more comprehensive and more affordable.”ADT...
a.p.i. Monitoring adds managed services division
January 29, 2014Leif Kothe
TORONTO—a.p.i Monitoring, a wholesale monitoring company with seven central stations in the U.S. and Canada, is seeing some encouraging early returns from its managed services division, which debuted as a separate unit in November 2013.“We saw a spike in demand for the services,” Lewis Jacobson, director of dealer sales, told Security Systems News. “So it was time to break it out from our regular operations.”The new division concentrates on hosted video and video verification,...
Axis, I-View Now team up on hosted video offering
December 18, 2013Leif Kothe
By way of a partnership with Axis Communications, cloud-based video verification service I-View Now is expanding its hosted video offering to include both cloud-hosted and central station monitored video with the release of its I-View Cloud service.
I-View Now made the announcement today in a news release. “Cloud stored video has matured as a service and product offering and coupling those benefits with central station monitoring is a true game changer,” Larry Folsom, president of I-View...
Poll: Managed services and hosted video gaining ground, but slowly
September 11, 2013Leif Kothe
YARMOUTH, Maine—Managed services and hosted video are building momentum, but some skepticism remains regarding the near-term prospects of the services, according to results from SSN's October News Poll. Fifty-five percent of respondents say they're either offering or plan to offer managed services, citing the potential RMR boost as a key reason. Another 47 percent of respondents say hosted video is part of their current or future plans.“We are actively seeking to enter the hosted video...
Market void: Technology and demand await next development in hosted video
August 21, 2013Kenneth Z. Chutchian
Although hosted video has not yet dominated the security scene as some predicted a few years ago, the hype may eventually be justified. Integrators who have made the switch from selling analog to digital cameras and other industry experts say the future is now for hosted video surveillance.The technology has been available for a while. The demand has been emerging. One of the remaining hurdles is the training of reluctant salespeople, technicians and installers, says Art Miller, vice president of...
Pushing the IP tipping point with sales training
August 14, 2013Martha Entwistle
An announcement from Axis Communications that landed in my inbox this week caught my eye. It's a new “sales essentials" training program, a one-day training program that starts Aug. 27 and will be offered in 40 cities in the U.S. and Canada. It is the first all-sales focused training session the network video provider has offered.
James Marcella, Axis director of technical services, said the session offers attendees the best answer to “Why network video?”
That very basic question...