Gartner defines backup and data protection platforms as platforms that capture point-in-time copies of enterprise data for multiple use cases. Primarily used for recovering data from multiple data loss scenarios, they enhance data protection initiatives to improve cyberreadiness and risk management, extract new data insights, and expand data access capabilities. These platforms protect enterprise data in hybrid, multicloud and SaaS environments. Backup and data protection platforms are available as software-only, integrated appliances, and vendor-developed and hosted backup as a service (BaaS).
Cloud Computing refers to products and services that enable the delivery, management, and optimization of computing resources over the internet. This category includes markets that focus on empowering organizations to seamlessly store, migrate, manage, and optimize workloads across diverse cloud environments, including public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud models.
Network video recorders (NVRs) are IP-based appliances that are purpose-built for managing cameras, recording and viewing camera feeds at a site. NVRs are usually PC-grade or low-end server systems made using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware components. They usually contain an embedded operating system or a client operating system that hosts video management software, which provides users a mechanism to view, record and manage camera feeds.
Server virtualization includes a range of technologies that abstract an underlying infrastructure layer (networking, storage and compute [including memory]). In doing so, it improves hardware utilization, workload portability, automation and availability. Server virtualization is most often associated with hypervisor-based server workloads running in data center environments on industry-standard servers. In reality, server virtualization incorporates multiple technologies, spans locations from public cloud to edge, and supports initiatives for both cloud-native transformation and infrastructure modernization. It includes hardware-, cloud- and software-based technologies.
A video management system (VMS) orchestrates a surveillance workflow by integrating with cameras, encoders, recording systems, underlying storage infrastructure, client workstations, gateway systems and analytics software, mainly by providing a single interface for video surveillance infrastructure management.