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Posted on 02 December 2011 |
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Global IT giants tie up for cloud video surveillance
New product lets business establishments monitor office hour and non-office hour surveillance from remote locations
Samiran Saha
New Delhi
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(From left) S Janakiraman, Group President, product engineering services, MindTree; Jonathan Huberman, President, consumer and small business products division, Iomega Corporation; and Sanjay Jain, CEO, Tulip Telecom, at the launch of the tie-up in cloud video surveillance solutions at Taj Ambassador in New Delhi
Photo: Naveesh |
Global information technology (IT) giants US-based Iomega Corporation, MindTree, one of the best mid-size software services companies, and Tulip Telecom announced a tie-up to mark the launch of cloud video surveillance solutions in India on Friday.
“The partnership aims to provide the first of its kind video surveillance service. The market is estimated to be of $225 million and aims to tap the small and medium business,” Jonathan Huberman, President, consumer and small business products division, of Iomega, said in his presentation at Taj Ambassador here.
The cloud solution involves Iomega’s network storage devices, Tulip’s national broadband network with cloud data centres and MindTree’s video management software.
The innovative product lets any business establishment monitor office hour and non-office hour surveillance from remote locations on wireless technology.
“Our product not only delivers on the promise of an easy-to-install and use security appliance but also adds business productivity tools such as loss prevention, compliance and a planning tool that businesses can use to increase revenue, improve operations and enhance profitability,” Sanjay Jain, Chief Executive Officer of Tulip Telecom said.
Huberman added that the product range started from $500 onwards. “These are very robust systems and have very huge data storage capacity.”
About the association, S Janakiraman, Group President, product engineering services, MindTree, added “MindTree has developed the SecureMind surveillance manager to address the global need for standard-based video surveillance solutions.”
Regarding the market potential of the product, heads of the three organisations said that “there is a huge untapped market which is as big as $ 225-230 million. We already have few installations in place and are also looking at new markets where we can launch the product.”
Samiran Saha is Assistant Editor, Business with Tehelka.
samiran@tehelka.com
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