A break-in happens after hours at one of your remote sites. Law enforcement is on the way. You’re at home. Your team is at HQ. The local operator is off duty.
Without cloud access, you’re stuck—waiting on a phone call, a screen share, or a delayed file transfer. But with cloud layered onto your on-prem system, you’re already watching the footage. You’re coordinating with first responders. You’re pushing real-time intel to your team—before anyone’s even stepped on-site.
That’s the power of hybrid video management.
For many organizations—especially in regulated or high-security environments—storing video on-premises is still the right call. It ensures full control over data retention, access policies, and compliance. But forward-looking teams are increasingly turning to cloud services to extend what they already have. Not to replace their infrastructure, but to gain a new level of agility, visibility, and responsiveness.
What’s Possible Today: Cloud on Your Terms
At Salient Systems, our cloud services are designed to enhance your on-prem system—not change how it works. Your video remains stored locally, but now you can access and manage it remotely, securely, and efficiently.
Today’s capabilities include:
- Remote access to live and recorded video from any authorized device
- Centralized system health monitoring through an intuitive dashboard
- License and software oversight without needing to visit the site
- Secure sharing with integrators or regional teams when needed
Why Cloud Matters—Especially Now
A hybrid approach is ideal for:
- Multi-site organizations with limited IT staff at each location
- Teams balancing compliance requirements with the need for flexibility
- Security professionals who can’t afford delays in emergencies
Cloud access gives key personnel—whether they’re at HQ, on the road, or coordinating with law enforcement—the ability to pull up footage, verify system status, or provide critical information in real time.
No VPN. No screen sharing. Just instant visibility when it matters most.
Hybrid Cloud, Simplified
Some decision-makers hesitate, assuming cloud services mean uploading sensitive footage to the internet. But that’s not how Salient’s model works.
Your video stays on-premises. When remote users access footage, it streams directly from your local recording server. Nothing is uploaded or archived in the cloud. Instead, the cloud provides a secure access layer—letting you manage your system remotely without relocating your data.
You’re not choosing between safety and convenience. You’re gaining both.
Setup is lightweight. Most organizations can enable remote access in just a few steps. Features like Auto LAN Detection ensure that on-site access doesn’t waste bandwidth by unnecessarily routing video through the cloud.
Getting started is straightforward. Register a site, confirm firewall settings, and work with your IT and security teams to define access. From there, it’s easy to scale—site by site—once policies are in place.
Enabling Seamless Collaboration
As your organization grows, managing systems—and people—becomes more complex. Cloud tools help reduce that friction.
Now, your security team, IT department, and regional managers can all work in the same environment. They can investigate incidents, manage access, and audit system health—without relying on screen shares, emailed files, or on-site visits.
Everyone gets what they need, when they need it, from wherever they are.
Local Control. Global Visibility.
Adding cloud capabilities to your on-prem video system isn’t a tradeoff—it’s an upgrade. You keep everything that makes local storage valuable while unlocking faster response, smarter oversight, and effortless scalability.
At a time when every second counts, hybrid deployments offer the best of both worlds: total control over your data and total access to your system—anytime, anywhere.
And as our platform continues to evolve, that balance will only get better.
