A new partnership between United Central Control (UCC), a wholesale central station, and CheckVideo, a provider of cloud-based intelligent video surveillance and alarm verification solutions, allows UCC to offer a robust menu of monitored video services to UCC customer accounts through more than 500 dealers nationwide.

Video Storage Solutions, a BCD company, signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Ingram Micro Inc. to resell its Video Storage Solutions’ (VSS) IP Video Recording Servers to their channel partners in the United States.

Viakoo Inc., Mountain View, Calif., announced that its IntransaBrand™ products, combined with Hitachi Unified Storage, create a powerfully integrated video server and storage solution for video system integrators and enterprise customers.

Sony Electronics’ Security Systems Division, Park Ridge, N.J., hired Andre Fontana to serve as strategic cloud business development manager.

Systems integrators who are looking to learn more about IP video technical network design can sign up to attend one of the upcoming Samsung Techwin IP Institute (SIPI) training programs. Locations include Pleasanton, Calif., and Louisville, Ky., and sessions will be conducted by Ray Coulombe, founder and managing director of SecuritySpecifiers.com.

Genetec and Milestone Systems tied for the No. 1 spot in the 2012 video management systems (VMS) vendor rankings by IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc.

Video Storage Solutions (VSS), a BCD Company, signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Ingram Micro Inc. to resell its VSS IP video recording servers to their channel partners throughout the U.S.

In July, Evansville, Ind.-based Data Link Communications will begin work on upgrading the existing IP video system at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, which will include replacing an antiquated storage platform that wasn’t working well for the airport with new high-capacity Big Bertha servers from BCDVideo.