VICTORIA POLICE

NexentaStor ZFS Storage Solution that Accommodates to Growth

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ESTABLISHED IN 2016

  • 54 Police Service Areas (PSAs)
  • Keeping over 5.7 million Victorians safe

PRODUCTS USED

  • SuperServer 6027R-TRF
  • DiGiCOR D2123-DE6-RS
  • DiGiCOR D143-SE4-DHR

To keep over 5.7 million Victorians safe, Victoria Police provides policing services to the Victorian community 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Police officers and protective service officers are supported in their roles by public service professionals who work as administrators, managers, and specialists in a range of functions such as legal services, accounting, and forensic sciences.

Victoria Police provides policing services to the Victorian community across 54 Police Service Areas (PSAs), within 21 divisions and four regions - North West Metro, Southern Metro, Eastern and Western. These regional boundaries correspond with those of other Victorian government departments, enhancing cross-department service delivery, particularly in the area of emergency management.



HIGHLIGHTS

OBJECTIVES

  • Require a storage solution that could store massive amounts of video data and can be easily scaled to accommodate future growth
  • Meet requirements that different teams and departments had

HOW WE HELPED

  • Identified a solution that accommodated their needs such as the demand for data and achieve storage
  • DiGiCOR provided a NexentaStor (software storage solution) that provided a platform that could be easily expanded as data growth demanded

FEATURED SOLUTIONS

SuperServer 6027R-TRF

DiGiCOR D2123-DE6-RS

OUTCOMES

  • Having a Software Defined Storage solution meant that the Victoria Police could purchase their disk requirements from any vendor, meet the growth that they are experiencing and keep their storage costs under control

Challenges

To tackle rising crime from increased social problems, organised crime, family violence and triple zero calls outpacing population growth, the Victoria Police has established a range of actions across the organisation that include the rollout of frontline focussed IT systems.

With the exploding demand for data and archive storage, the police department requires a storage solution that can meet these demands and also be easily scaled to accommodate future growth. Victoria Police required a storage solution that was capable of storing massive amounts of video data. This new infrastructure needed to be purchased outside of the I.T. department (this is a “black” site), so the price was extremely sensitive.

Several presentations and meetings with various departments were required since there were many stakeholders requiring the use of the infrastructure. All the different teams had their requirements, which needed to be met before a decision was made.



How We Helped

DiGiCOR was able to provide a NexentaStor storage solution (Software Defined Storage) that provided a platform that could be easily expanded as data growth demanded. Based on the ZFS operating system, an open-source platform meant that the police were not locked in by any particular storage vendor for their disk expansion requirements.


Results

Having a Software Defined Storage solution meant that the Victoria Police could purchase their disk requirements from any vendor, meet the growth that they are experiencing and keep their storage costs under control. The decision to choose NexentaStor was driven by the capabilities of ZFS and the quality of the stored video over time compared to other technologies.





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