Information Services warns supervisors server limits prevent 365-day retention for many cameras; software, data-processing costs cited
Information Services Director Cliff Gibson told the board that current servers cannot keep 365 days of footage for all cameras (187 cameras cited) and presented estimates including $350,000 for software and a $282,867 data-processing services request to address capacity and performance.
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Cliff Gibson, Dallas County's Information Services Director, told supervisors the county's single server is overloaded and is not storing 365 days of footage for all cameras as intended. "There are 187 cameras on it currently," Gibson said, and described testing options to split the load across multiple servers and to replace or upgrade interrogation-room cameras where necessary.
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