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Rishi Lodhia
Vos in 2005, and shares a unique characteristic with Eagle Eye Net- works. They both built their own cloud. They don’t use or license anyone else’s cloud. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not Microsoft.
By acquiring the Amsterdam-based business, Eagle Eye immedi- ately benefited from both a geographic and a product perspective. In addition to the CameraManager platform, Lodhia and Vos had de- veloped an exciting new 4G camera solution, Nubo, which operates independently and also integrates nicely with the CameraManager platform for cloud management. The CameraManager and Nubo products are designed for the reseller seeking a private labeled cam- era-to-cloud video system. CameraManager is already the choice of several of Europe and the Middle East’s largest alarm systems pro- viders and is now coming to North and South America.
“Combining our business with Eagle Eye Networks was an in- credible opportunity,” Lodhia said. “Eagle Eye is growing rapidly in North America and Asia; we were the perfect fit at the right moment for Europe, and Eagle Eye got a second cloud platform for the pro- gram dealer segment.”
In Amsterdam, the Eagle Eye data center resides in a non-descript Tier 4 data center facility, encircled by a steel fence with concertina wire on top of it. Inside the datacenter a visitor gets the ultra-high security impression as they are processed through multiple biometric checkpoints and mantraps to eventually gain access to an impressive bank of servers and storage machines.
The Amsterdam Eagle Eye office is only a few miles away, and is easily accessible to the data center. As many as six team members
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