WD Purple Pro solutions for intelligent video surveillance

The new WD Purple Pro line from Western Digital has been specially designed for intelligent video surveillance, to address emerging AI workloads, From the endpoint to the cloud.

Addressing growing AI workloads from endpoint to cloud, Western Digital has expanded the family WD Purple with the Pro product line, Solutions that are aimed at a new generation of cameras, advanced recorders and back-end servers compatible with Artificial Intelligence.

The new line WD Purple Pro is designed to handle these workloads and delivers optimized storage performance and a higher level of reliability for countless devices. These include network video recorders (Nvr) AI-enabled; video analytics devices and servers, storage arrays and storage/server solutions, including those who perform deep learning analyses.

“With the addition of WD Purple Pro we complete our portfolio of intelligent video products and cover all needs, from WD Purple microSD cards for cameras, WD Purple hard drives for conventional NVRs, to the next generation of intelligent video architectures”, Brian Mallari points out, Smart Video Marketing Director, Western Digital.

The complete family of WD Purple solutions includes from WD Purple microSD cards to 1 Tb, For cameras and devices at the edge, up to WD Purple hard drives 1 To 8 TB for NVR. And to this are added the new WD Purple Pro units of 8 To 18 TB to support a range of systems for AI-powered workloads, including enterprise backend servers.

“Western Digital's new WD Purple Pro solutions, AI compatible, deliver the performance needed for data-intensive workloads and provide the reliability our customers need to store their critical data”, notes Dave Nieweg, director of the Milestone Systems Community Program".

WD Purple Pro Features:

• All Frame technology with improved AI for recording, simultaneously, Video streams up to 64 HD cameras, and manage up to 32 additional flows for AI functions, whether the cameras are connected directly to advanced recorders or cloud servers.
• High performance and workload capacity, as they support up to 550 TB per year and meet the additional demands of AI functions, including pattern matching and object/event recognition, while writing a multitude of video streams.
• High reliability and capacity, as they help retain and feed thousands of hours of training video for effective deep learning and AI algorithm development. Capacities range from 8TB to 18TB.
• Increased durability for error-free work on large-scale video analytics servers, high-density and cloud solutions.

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