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The Cloud Keeps Evolving in 2017
The expected and surprising ways the Cloud will change in coming years
BEy Christian Morin
arlier in 2016, when Gartner analysts stated that by 2020, 80 percent of all software will be offered on a subscription basis—this did not come as surprise to us at Genetec. Now, in early 2017, much has changed since we introduced Stratocast in 2013,
our video surveillance-as-a-service (VSaaS). Four years ago, we had already begun to unlock new possibilities of the cloud, and what is coming in 2017 excites us.
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The Cloud for City and Community Safety
and Crime Prevention
One important highlight from 2016 was seeing our VSaaS becom- ing an integral component to community safety programs, like the highly successful Project Green Light in Detroit. This public- private community partnership combines 1080p high-resolution video surveillance with high-speed network real-time federated video feeds to the Detroit Police Department. The program was
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