The Cloud: Beyond Data Storage

Cloud computing became a popular concept in law enforcement about five years ago with the widespread acceptance of body-worn cameras. One of the first things the agencies that adopted body cams learned about their systems was that they capture a lot of data, much more than in-car video systems. With dash-cams, law enforcement agencies were dealing with terabytes (1,000 GB) of data storage; now they have to cope with petabytes (1,000 TB) of information.And the storage and processing demands are i