Enterprise VMS: have it all, build it light, do it right Traditional VMS comes with heavy hardware, a high price tag and ongoing costs. Digifort’s globally recognised cutting-edge, open platform solution breaks the mould with a compelling lightweight, high-performance alternative. Established in 1997, VST (NZ) Ltd has been a leader in the distribution of IT storage hardware in New Zealand for two decades. The Auckland-based company is synonymous with storage, and its team is widely reputed for their pre-sales advice, installation support and solid after sales and technical support across their product range. Recently, the VST vision of bringing in the latest storage hardware to the New Zealand market was taken one step further with the signing of Digifort, the video surveillance software and video monitoring intelligence specialist. “We’re delighted to be welcoming the Digifort brand to our range,” VST Sales Manager Douglas Leung told NZSM. “Digifort is a global innovator renowned for cutting-edge video surveillance technology admired by end-users around the world.” With a presence in over 120 countries and a platform translated to over 18 languages, Digifort has been at the forefront of the digital video surveillance revolution since 2002 with its market-leading, open platform VMS. “The New Zealand market is well known for adopting new and emerging technologies,” said Digifort’s Australasia Sales Director Tooma Chong. “We’ve been looking for a good partner, and in VST I believe we’ve found it. They have a great image in the marketplace, they understand tech, and they are known for superior tech support.”
Video Management System (VMS) Digifort’s award-winning VMS is a truly open platform offering highest-quality performance, compatibility, and one of the industry’s lowest total costs of ownership. As an open platform VMS company and a certified ONVIF global partner, Digifort supports nearly every camera in the market today. “Although we are a software developer ourselves, through collaboration we work with the best engine developers globally,” said Tooma. “This gives us the luxury of cherry-
Douglas Leung, Sales Manager VSTTooma Chong, Digifort Sales Director
picking the best in the industry and deeply yet seamlessly integrating their solutions into our single software platform.” Its performance-driven architecture delivers one of the most responsive and lowest CPU and RAM demanding VMS in its class, creating an environment extremely light on IT infrastructure and light on hardware and maintenance costs. “Analytics requires highly sophisticated back-end hardware and large numbers of servers, which can kill end user budgets,” said Tooma. “In some cases we can halve the number of servers needed, delivering sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars in IT infrastructure savings.” It’s part of a philosophy of keeping things simple. “There’s no shortage of high tech driven software that is complicated for the end user,” he said. “We make it easy for the security officer in the control room to use, while providing all the enterprise features that are needed.” But perhaps the most compelling feature of all relates to total cost of ownership. “Most of the VMS we compete with rely on recurring revenue, such as annual charges for updates, new releases, new features, etc,” explained Tooma. “Digifort doesn’t charge any annual fees – once you buy it you own it, and you are entitled to the upgrades and the technical support you need.” Digifort ANPR Digifort ANPR is designed to read any vehicle license plate type in the world at any traffic speed. The fast, exact, automatic identification and recognition capabilities of this ANPR/LPR engine is suited to toll collection and congestion charging, traffic monitoring and security, speed and journey time measurement, bus lane and traffic light enforcement, parking, and access control systems.
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