One of my personal discussions during the Altiris / Symantec ManageFusion conference last week concerned video surveillance inside casinos. A friend of mine had written a case study about disk vendors and how they help casinos record, digitize, and recover video. I would like to see that myself. Any user groups or vendors in Las Vegas offering technology tours behind the scenes? Such a tour might really draw some techies.
Obviously, there are some details that can't be shown to a group of random tourists, no matter how geeky they seem, or how many security certifications they have. But since the law in Nevada demands a high level of video surveillance, and casinos and hotels use surveillance to protect themselves from frivolous lawsuits, quite a bit of the technology should be non-classified and viewable.
Companies offer package tour deals, including travel, meals and entertainment, for all types of events, including the college basketball Final Four, the Super Bowl, tennis grand slams, baseball playoffs, and on and on. Why not offer technical tours?
Past user conferences I've attended at DisneyWorld in Orlando included tours of attractions, with explanations of the technology to make the attraction work. There are as many or more fascinating attractions in Las Vegas as there are at DisneyWorld, so why not pull back the curtain for fellow techies?
Who could step up and do this? AFCOM? Some other data center conference or association? HP or IBM or Dell user groups?
Leave a comment if your group has access to behind the scenes technology and would be interested in hosting tech tours.
Leave a comment if you're a techie and would love to have access to such behind the scenes technology while you're in Vegas. Maybe we can put some people, and the technology they crave, together.
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Don't forget to attend MMS 2009. Be some good coverage and provide some good topics for you.Tech tours in Vegas, behind the scenes use of surveillance
James,There are at least a couple of key US manufacturers, that provide DVR / NVR recording solutions for casino use, and I'd dare say they would be more than happy to discuss their solutions, for these very large scale recording environments.
As for whether the casinos themselves would permit access to view their systems secure side, quite frankly I'd be amazed whether they would even consider such an idea, unless the visitors were from the Law Enforcement community.
Interesting idea though :-)
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