Everest Use Cases

Challenge

Surveillance organizations accumulate terabytes of video footage that exceeds local NAS/DAS capacity within months. Manual archival processes are error-prone, and tape or external drive rotation is operationally expensive.

Everest Approach

Everest automatically archives completed video segments from Nx Witness to Wasabi or AWS S3 after the configured L1 retention period, replacing local files with lightweight stubs that preserve the appearance of full storage to the VMS.

Challenge

Enterprise organizations with distributed surveillance deployments across multiple physical locations face inconsistent backup practices, with each site managing its own storage independently and no centralized visibility.

Everest Approach

Everest deploys an agent at each site, each replicating to a centralized S3 bucket organized by site and drive label. The admin portal provides consolidated visibility across all sites from a single interface.

Challenge

NVR servers with fixed DAS capacity frequently run out of storage, triggering VMS overwrite of older recordings before operators have reviewed them. Adding local drives is costly and requires planned downtime.

Everest Approach

Everest's L3 reclaim phase converts full video files to 100-byte stub files after cloud replication, freeing the original disk space. The VMS sees the files as present and reports their original sizes.

Challenge

A hardware failure, ransomware incident, or fire at an NVR server location destroys all local recordings and configuration. Recovery requires sourcing replacement hardware, reinstalling VMS software, and manually restoring footage — a process that can take days.

Everest Approach

Everest's disaster recovery feature guides administrators through a structured restore workflow using cloud-replicated video files, SQLite metadata, and encrypted configuration backups stored in S3.

Challenge

Industrial facilities require long-term retention of video evidence for safety compliance, incident investigation, and regulatory purposes. Local storage is often located in harsh environments with high hardware failure rates.

Everest Approach

Everest's real-time replication mode ensures every recording is simultaneously available in cloud storage from the moment it is written, providing a zero-delay cloud copy for compliance-critical environments.

Challenge

Law enforcement support, legal proceedings, and insurance claims often require access to surveillance recordings from months or years prior. Local NVR storage cycles prevent long-term retention without expensive archival infrastructure.

Everest Approach

Everest archives recordings to S3/Wasabi with configurable retention policies. Audit logs record every lifecycle event, and stub files allow transparent playback of archived evidence through the existing VMS interface.

Challenge

Organizations want the performance of local storage for recent recordings and the cost efficiency of cloud for older archival footage, but managing two separate storage systems creates operational complexity.

Everest Approach

Everest's three-phase lifecycle model creates a seamless hybrid storage model. Recent recordings stay local (L1), are backed up to cloud while remaining local (L2), then are reclaimed locally with transparent cloud access (L3).

Challenge

Purchasing, powering, and maintaining high-capacity NAS or SAN storage for surveillance is capital and operationally intensive. TCO of local storage for multi-year retention is difficult to justify.

Everest Approach

Everest routes long-term footage to Wasabi's cost-effective object storage, which offers significantly lower per-TB pricing than local NAS infrastructure and eliminates hardware maintenance.

Challenge

Remote locations such as construction sites, substations, and unmanned facilities have limited IT support availability. On-site storage hardware failures go undetected and unresolved for extended periods.

Everest Approach

Everest's health monitoring and auto-recovery features detect failures and restart services automatically. Cloud replication continues independently, and the admin portal provides centralized visibility into remote site status.

Challenge

Enterprise security operations centers manage dozens of sites with varying local storage configurations and inconsistent retention policies, making centralized compliance reporting and audit difficult.

Everest Approach

Everest's billing tab and metrics collection provide consolidated visibility into camera channel counts, managed capacity, and upload/download volumes across all sites, exportable for compliance and planning.