This document provides an overview of video surveillance storage solutions, including key industry trends, deployment architectures, sizing considerations, and best practices. It discusses how increasing camera resolutions and storage retention periods are driving higher storage requirements. Common deployment architectures include recording servers that receive video feeds and archive to storage, and camera-to-storage models. Sizing factors include resolution, frame rate, retention period, and compression. The document also presents NetApp's video surveillance storage rack solution using E-Series storage and software components.