As customer expectations increase so do the hardware resources and cost needed to deliver a security solution which meets those expectations. The performance requirements for recording today’s high resolution cameras at high frame rates are immense. Nowadays, surveillance VMS must be able to process potentially huge amounts of incoming and outgoing data. Only manufacturers with the ‘do one thing and do it well’ ethos can, in my opinion, make a truly great VMS.
They suffer from being bolt on, free-with-camera sales drivers and often from a lack of development focus. Most VMS are either weak in terms of their UI/UX (user interface / user experience – often making use of the analogue DVR paradigm for their interface design) are poorly documented, have patchy performance, don’t test compatibility properly, have a steep learning curve or worse, attempt to abstract important configuration options away from the administrator. The VMS market is highly fragmented, with VMS offerings coming from software-only suppliers and from camera hardware manufacturers, consisting of many flavours from fully distributed VMS systems built for running on enterprise-level hardware, to free and open source software running on any PC or server, or even a Raspberry Pi (though don’t expect to record many cameras using this hardware)! No supplier dominates the market and most exist in the margins.
We are well-placed to form an opinion on the state of the VMS marketplace and as a Milestone Premier Partner, I’d like to explain why we have chosen to focus mainly on Milestone XProtect as our go-to VMS.
As a company formed in the very early years of IP video and geared from the beginning to work with and deliver solutions around video over IP networks, we have seen many video management systems (VMS) come onto the market and many disappear, and our exposure to a large number of them has been significant, while we have developed a key focus on one product: Milestone XProtect.
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