Seamless Storage Extension to Tape for Video Surveillance
Surveillance Bridge with HPE Storage Tape enables you to store video recordings longer at a lower cost. Ensure compliance, data integrity, and security, while providing disaster recovery protection and advanced ransomware defense through air gapping and tape technology.
What Can You Achieve with Storage Extension to Tape?
Lower Storage Costs
Reduce pressure on expensive primary storage by offloading inactive footage to high-capacity, low-cost tape.
Built-In Ransomware Protection
As a naturally air-gapped medium, tape is immune to online threats and provides a secure, offline layer of defense for long-term video retention.
Reduced Power and Cooling Needs
Tape consumes no energy when idle, helping to lower long-term operating costs and infrastructure requirements.
Enterprise-Grade Scalability
Surveillance Bridge with HPE Storage Tape supports multi-petabyte capacity using HPE MSL libraries – ideal for medium to large organizations with thousands of cameras and extended retention requirements.
Surveillance Bridge is an intelligent data mover that seamlessly integrates with your Video Management System (VMS). With its tape library management capabilities, Surveillance Bridge reduces maintenance overhead by automating tasks like tape formatting, recycling, and drive cleaning, allowing your team to focus on threat detection and incident resolution.
Solution at a Glance
Surveillance Bridge automatically moves footage to HPE Storage Tape based on retention policies, and handles all routine tape tasks such as formatting, mirroring, recycling, and drive cleaning.
Intelligent data mover automatically transfers video recordings and metadata from your Video Management System (VMS) to tape, ensuring uninterrupted operations.
Archived footage can be easily located and played back directly from the VMS timeline, with no IT support required.
HPE Storage Tape MSL3040 Library
The HPE Storage Tape MSL3040 helps you modernize into a true data-first organization and become more competitive and successful. You can manage valuable archival data more effectively, allowing you to harness its power to identify customer needs before your competition or gain insights to develop products and services more rapidly.
The MSL3040 is a future-ready, highly scalable, simple-to-manage, cyber resilient tape system that you can massively expand in easy steps to protect up to 28.8 PB of compressed data using LTO-9 technology.
Validated in HPE Storage Tape Compatibility Matrix as of July 2025 for:
Libraries:
- 1/8 G3 Autoloader
- MSL2024 G3
- MSL2024 G4 (Launching Jan 2026)
- MSL3040
- MSL6480
You can find the complete Compatibility Matrix here.
Drives:
- LTO6 Ultrium 6250
- LTO7 Ultrium 15000
- LTO8 Ultrium 30750
- LTO9 Ultrium 45000
The Case for Modern Tape: Cost-Effective, Seamless Archiving for Video Surveillance
Read this whitepaper to understand how modern tape technology – once considered legacy – has become a cornerstone of sustainable, secure, and scalable video archiving.
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