Microsoft customer Genetec, which provides Internet Protocol (IP) video surveillance and other security services, used Windows Azure Platform as a Service to build its new cloud-based video management software solution called “Stratocast,” which offers affordable options for smaller clients.
One of the great things about Stratocast is that it doesn’t require customers to manage and store their own video images on site, writes Adrienne Hall, Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing general manager.
“By managing the service remotely, Genetec can offer strong security protections and reliable service at lower costs to the customer,” Hall writes on the Trustworthy Computing blog.
Genetec, based in Canada, has customers in more than 80 countries.
The company’s Stratocast service, Hall writes, is very attractive to enterprise customers as well. “Several larger customers chose Stratocast to help them extend their services to smaller field offices.”
Hall spoke Wednesday at the Cloud Security Alliance Congress 2013 in Orlando, Fla., and talked about some of Microsoft’s customers that see cloud services as an important strategic asset to help grow their businesses and deliver more value to their own customers.
To read her entire post, head over to the Trustworthy Computing blog.
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Suzanne Choney
Microsoft News Center Staff