Usage-based billing management platform
An invaluable aspect of our offering is our backend usage monitoring, billing and management platform. In the case of cloud storage, it’s sold on a per TB or lesser amount, and as such, there must be a mechanism to monitor the usage by account to ensure more data is not being stored than is being purchased.
In addition, many competitors charge ingest (upload) and egress (download) fees associated with the cost of storage, making it difficult to predict your total monthly costs. This is a very cost-prohibitive model for video surveillance, as content is constantly being uploaded and downloaded which with those platforms makes it almost impossible to quote a monthly cost to an end-user.