Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. The system shall operate in a Microsoft Windows environment. It shall be an IT server based solution purpose-built for the capture, processing, storage and retrieval of unlimited amounts of digital video and supporting audio, alarm, associated systems (access control, etc.), and other surveillance data. 2. The VMS shall capture video, audio, alarm, associated systems and other data from multiple servers. 3. The VMS shall have the ability to write to DAS, NAS iSCSI and Fiber SAN in addition to local storage. The VMS storage volume can be configured to write to RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and JBOD. 4. The VMS shall support all leading industry-standard compression formats including Motion JPEG, MPEG-4, H.264, & H.265. 5. The VMS shall simultaneously handle recording, archiving, retrieving, playback and live distribution of video and audio. The software shall operate in a continuous recording mode or according to a programmed time/date schedule. Recording functions may also be triggered by events and motion detection. 6. Live and archived video/audio data shall be available to authorized users at anytime over local or wide area network connections.