Migration & Onboarding
Seamlessly transition your surveillance data to our specialized storage infrastructure with minimal disruption to your operations.
Why Migrate Your Surveillance Data?
Migrating your video surveillance archives to a specialized storage infrastructure offers significant advantages over general-purpose storage solutions. However, the migration process involves unique challenges that require careful planning and execution.
Benefits of Migration
- Enhanced Performance: Purpose-built infrastructure optimized for video workloads, resulting in faster retrieval and smoother playback.
- Cost Optimization: Tiered storage architecture that balances performance and cost, potentially reducing your total storage expenses.
- Improved Compliance: Automated retention policies and chain-of-custody documentation to meet regulatory requirements.
- Advanced Analytics: Access to AI-powered video analytics that can extract valuable insights from your existing footage.
- Scalability: Ability to grow your storage capacity seamlessly as your surveillance needs expand.
Migration Challenges
- Data Volume: Surveillance archives often contain petabytes of data, making traditional transfer methods impractical.
- Continuous Operation: Security operations typically can't afford downtime during migration.
- Metadata Preservation: Critical to maintain camera settings, timestamps, and other metadata during transfer.
- Chain-of-Custody: Legal requirements demand verifiable continuity of evidence during migration.
- Format Compatibility: Diverse video formats and proprietary containers require specialized handling.
Our Migration Philosophy
At VaultSight, we understand that migrating surveillance data isn't just a technical process—it's a critical security operation that requires meticulous planning and execution. Our approach is built on three core principles:
Zero Evidence Compromise
We maintain complete chain-of-custody throughout the migration process, ensuring that your video evidence remains legally admissible with no gaps in documentation.
Operational Continuity
Our migration strategies are designed to ensure your security operations continue without interruption, with phased approaches that minimize disruption.
Verified Completeness
Every migrated video file undergoes rigorous verification to ensure complete, bit-perfect transfer with all metadata intact.
Overview of Services
Migration Services
Our comprehensive migration services handle the complete transition of your existing video surveillance archives to our specialized storage infrastructure.
Key Services Include:
- Current infrastructure assessment and inventory
- Migration strategy development and planning
- Secure data transfer with chain-of-custody preservation
- Metadata mapping and retention policy configuration
- VMS integration and verification testing
Onboarding & Training
Our onboarding services ensure your team is fully equipped to leverage the full capabilities of the VaultSight platform after migration.
Key Services Include:
- User role configuration and access policy setup
- Operator training on platform features and workflows
- Administrator training on system management
- Evidence handling and export procedures
- Custom workflow development and documentation
Key Migration Considerations
Bandwidth Planning
Surveillance archives typically contain massive volumes of data that can challenge traditional network infrastructure. Our migration planning includes:
- Detailed bandwidth assessment of your current network capabilities
- WAN acceleration technology deployment for optimized transfers
- Scheduled transfers during off-peak hours to minimize operational impact
- Physical transfer options for extremely large archives or limited connectivity
- Incremental migration strategies to prioritize critical footage
Metadata Mapping
Preserving and enhancing metadata is crucial for maintaining searchability and context in your video archives. Our approach includes:
- Comprehensive audit of existing metadata schemas in your VMS
- Custom mapping of camera identifiers, timestamps, and event markers
- Enrichment opportunities through AI-powered content analysis
- Geographic and organizational tagging for improved searchability
- Integration of custom fields and tags from your existing system
Retention Policy Mapping
Transitioning your retention rules to our advanced policy engine requires careful planning to ensure compliance continuity:
- Documentation of existing retention requirements and practices
- Analysis of regulatory obligations specific to your industry and region
- Configuration of equivalent or enhanced policies in VaultSight
- Implementation of legal hold mechanisms for ongoing investigations
- Verification testing to ensure policy enforcement
Chain-of-Custody Preservation
Maintaining evidential integrity throughout the migration process is critical for legal and compliance purposes:
- Cryptographic hashing of all video files before and after transfer
- Detailed transfer logs with timestamps and operator identification
- Tamper-evident seals for physical transfers when applicable
- Continuous audit trail from source system to destination
- Certification documentation for evidential continuity
Migration Checklist
Our proven migration methodology follows these key phases to ensure a successful transition with minimal disruption to your operations:
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Assessment & Audit
Comprehensive evaluation of your current surveillance infrastructure, including storage volumes, camera count, retention requirements, and network capabilities. This phase establishes the baseline for planning and identifies potential challenges.
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Pilot Migration
Small-scale test migration of selected cameras or time periods to validate the migration process, identify any compatibility issues, and refine the approach before proceeding with the full migration.
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Bulk Transfer
Execution of the main data transfer using the most appropriate method (network transfer, physical media, or hybrid approach) based on your specific requirements. Includes real-time monitoring and verification to ensure data integrity.
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Verification & Testing
Rigorous validation of all migrated data, including integrity checks, metadata verification, and functional testing of search and retrieval capabilities. Any discrepancies are identified and resolved before proceeding.
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Cut-Over & Integration
Seamless transition from your legacy system to VaultSight, including integration with your existing VMS, configuration of user access, and implementation of operational workflows. Includes a parallel operation period if required.
Ready to Start Your Migration Journey?
Contact our migration specialists to request a comprehensive assessment of your current surveillance infrastructure and a customized migration plan.
Request Migration Assessment