Iomega, the San Diego, Calif.-based subsidiary of EMC is surely spreading its wings and adapting to storage for video surveillance, which very few of its competitors are doing. 

Off lately, Iomega has announced that AXIS Communications' Video Hosting System is now integrated into two of its StorCenter NAS (network-attached storage) devices and has already started shipping them. The new video client comes at no extra charge in the StorCenter machines.

StorCenters with an AVHS client offers users new options in handling video surveillance. They can store video files locally and at HDTV or megapixel resolution while simultaneously streaming video data to a secure, off-site storage facility developed by their hosting provider.

Iomega has the AVHS client on its new double-drive desktop StorCenter ix2-200 Cloud Edition NAS unit, which ships with up to 6TB of networked storage capacity. The video client is also included in Iomega's new quad-drive desktop StorCenter ix4-200d Cloud Edition, which has up to 12TB of storage capacity. 

Not only this, Iomega will be moving this capability into rack-mounted storage in the second half of 2011.  

In fact, the company will add the AVHS client into its four-drive StorCenter ix4-200r, which has up to 8TB of networked storage capacity, and the 12-drive Iomega StorCenter ix12-300r, with up to 24TB of networked storage capacity.