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Specific IT needs sometimes require dedicated solutions. Dedicated server and server appliance solutions built using Microsoft Specialized Server technology combine best–of–breed hardware and software to address specific, dedicated serving needs within today's IT infrastructures and industries.
Surveillance and Security

As the security and surveillance market transitions to IP-based systems that are increasingly part of the corporate IT infrastructure, IT managers will demand industrial strength, proven security to help protect their network. Microsoft® Server with Embedded Licensing technologies can help security and surveillance systems manufacturers deliver cost-effective and scalable appliance-type servers for their IP-based security and surveillance systems built on proven Microsoft server technologies.

Servers using Microsoft embedded server technologies can be designed to scale to the needs of customers and are flexible enough to manage and store stills, video, and data on legacy analog systems or in deployments of new IP systems.

Microsoft® server with embedded licensing products provide several key advantages to security and surveillance systems manufacturers, including:

By choosing Microsoft server with embedded licensing products, industrial solutions providers benefit from Microsoft-provided development tools, software compatible with commodity hardware and industry standard protocols, a large developer ecosystem, and favorable royalty rates compared to Microsoft’s general purpose server systems.

Microsoft-enabled embedded server solutions include:
  • Video management applications
  • Network Video Recorder (NVR)
  • Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network Gateway
  • Backup and recovery appliances to help protect critical information
End-to-end Solutions
End-to-end Solutions

Security and surveillance system vendors need to provide systems that are flexible, scalable, and interoperable, requiring total infrastructure and management control—from servers, to cameras, to card readers.

In conjunction with the Microsoft server with embedded licensing products, Windows Embedded offerings help OEMs to deliver solutions that allow security and surveillance systems to standardize on one platform. From Windows Embedded CE, the highly secure, standard protocol plug and play OS, to the scalable Windows Server®, Microsoft offers the operating system choices and capabilities that today’s IP-based security and surveillance systems require.

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To discuss licensing and pricing options, contact a Microsoft Authorized Embedded Distributor.


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