We're very pleased to announce that PSA, the world's largest consortium of professional security integrators, has added Qumulex to their Managed Security Service Provider program (MSSP).

“Qumulex designs products that make the transition from legacy systems to the cloud, easier and more manageable,” said Tim Brooks, vice president of sales and vendor management for PSA. “This hybrid model allows customers to be both on-premises and in the cloud without having to entirely replace a legacy system. We are very pleased to add Qumulex to our lineup of products.”

The addition of Qumulex to the PSA offering further strengthens our integrator focus.  We look forward to working with all of PSA's resellers, many of whom we've had a long working relationship with our past ventures.

The full PSA announcement is available here.

The full listing of PSA's MSSP partners is here:

Asmag.com recently wrote an article on the benefits of a hybrid cloud architecture for video surveillance, and highlighted Qumulex in the article. It starts off:

More and more, cloud-based video surveillance is gaining traction. However, to some users, pure cloud has certain shortcomings. In this sense, the so-called hybrid cloud architecture can give end users the benefits of both on-prem and cloud solutions.

A hybrid cloud solution allows the user to store certain video onsite and others in the cloud, providing flexibility. “From a flexibility standpoint, hybrid systems allow customers to use inexpensive local storage for video archiving and less high-value video, while enjoying the benefits of the cloud for high-value video,” said Tom Buckley, Co-Founder of Qumulex. “Additionally, due to regulatory, insurance or other reasons, some customers have cameras in classified or sensitive areas that they don’t want to store in the cloud, yet want to utilize the same system to utilize the remainder of the cameras in the cloud.”

You can read the full article here.

Qumulex is pround to be sponsoring and virtually exhibiting at PSA Adapt 2020, the virtual conference held for the members of PSA Security Network.

PSA Adapt gives PSA network members the chance to participate in sales, operations and leadership-driven education sessions, discuss what is happening at PSA, learn about new trends in the industry, network with other PSA Network members and vendors, and gain access to additional tools and resources to help them reinvent their businesses in the post-COVID-19 economy.

Qumulex will be holding live demos in our virtual booth during the vendor hours each day:

• Tue Oct 6 - 1:15pm-2:45pm ET
• Wed Oct 7 - 12:15pm-1:45pm ET
• Thu Oct 8 - 12:30pm-2:00pm ET

PSA Adapt main page is here. Qumulex virtual trade show booth is here.

Qumulex will be presenting at the upcoming IPVM VSaaS Online Show, on Thursday, June 25 at 1:00pm ET.  This is the second of the IPVM Online Shows we've participated in, and the focus for this show is Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS),  

We'll be doing an in-depth look at our unique cloud and hybrid unified video surveillance and access control platform, including a detailed demo of our QxControl software, which operates on any browser, mobile or desktop. Viewers and the moderators can ask questions during the presentation. 

If you missed our last IPVM presentation in May, you can view it here, along with IPVM's commentary.

You can view the full presentation we did at the IPVM VSaaS Online Show site here.

The Indianapolis Business Journal's North of 96th blog recently chronicled the early growth of Qumulex.

The genesis of the article came from the recent grant to Qumulex by the Indiana Economic Development Corp to help with job growth. The article goes on to highlight the founders who are serial entrepreneurs: 

Qumulex’s 21 employees are now working to offer those companies a mobile app and browser-based software that modernizes legacy cameras and access controls by transitioning them to an entirely cloud-based or hybrid system.

If surveillance is all about tracking where someone has been, then Qumulex’s founders are hoping the trail of successful companies they’ve left in their wake will instill confidence in the new brand.

The company’s eight founders have been building transitional technology products and selling them to commercial security systems dealers across the nation for 30 years. Buckley said Qumulex has ties to successful video conversion companies, like Truevision and Integral, from as far back as the late 1980s.

In 2005, Qumulex’s cofounders launched Exacq Technologies. The company, which focuses on security and surveillance video management systems, was named one of IBJ’s 10 fastest-growing private companies in 2012 and 2013.

Later that year, Switzerland-based Tyco International Ltd. saw Exacq was on track to generate $75 million in revenue in 2014 and quickly bought the company for $150 million.

You can read the full IBJ story here.

We're pleased to be a part of the next IPVM Online Show, focusing on Start-Ups, May 12-14, 2020.  Qumulex will be presenting at 9:00am EDT on Wednesday, May 13. 

The IPVM Online Shows are a unique opportunity for manufacturers to present their products, and for viewers and the moderators to ask questions. We'll be giving an overview of our upcoming hybrid cloud video surveillance and access control platform, designed for the security integrator, which begins shipping Summer 2020.

Full information on the next IPVM Online Show is here.

TechPoint, the growth accelerator for Indiana's tech ecosystem, recently published a profile of Qumulex, focusing on Qumulex's serial entrepreneur founders, and the unique opportunity of applying new technology to the commercial video surveillance and access control space.

On the time being right to introduce new technology into the commercial physical security channel, they commented:

Qumulex has quickly grown to employ 21 and expects to hire at least 10 more people this year, with the ultimate goal of employing (and hopefully surpassing) the success of previous entrepreneurial ventures. Currently operating out of the Indiana IoT Lab in Fishers, Ind., the company has benefited from the innovative environment and serendipitous relationships built in proximity to other trailblazers and entrepreneurs.

The team at Qumulex has made it a habit to enter markets right as they are undergoing a technology transformation. They launched one of the first hard drive-based digital recorders when the physical security industry standard was still predominantly using time-lapse VCRs and half-inch tapes. They also developed a control box with a modern user interface for high-resolution IP cameras, just as the industry was shifting to the new cameras from the older analog versions.

Today, in their latest venture at Qumulex, they are operating at an intersection of the industry’s shift from on-premise servers and access control systems to the cloud.

Our thanks to the team at TechPoint. You can read the full article here.

Think Fishers, a quarterly publication of the City of Fishers, IN, where Qumulex is headquartered, has a feature article on Qumulex in its Jan 2020 edition. The article starts off:

As consumers utilize flexible and user-friendly security
technologies in their homes, they have started demanding similar
technologies in their place of work. Commercial security initially
lagged in its transition to the familiar, user-friendly cloud-based
security systems in comparison to other technologies.

Taking advantage of the technology shift in the video
surveillance market is Fishers-based Qumulex, a tech
company specializing in a unified cloud-based surveillance
and access control software for the commercial market.

With a core leadership rooted in the video surveillance
industry, President Dan Rittman and the Qumulex team
were previously a part of two other surveillance companies,
both taking advantage of technology shifts of the time.

You can read the full article on Page 15 here.

Good article by asmag.com on AI and cloud video surveillance:

"As surveillance video migrates from on-premises to the cloud, the opportunities for adding AI routines to video becomes far easier."

The full article is here:

Developments in AI Await Video Surveillance Consumers

SecurityInformed has just published a feature story on Qumulex:

"Qumulex is a new startup with a mission to provide physical security integrators a transition path to embrace the technology of the cloud and a subscription-based business model. Qumulex’s products seek to provide capabilities to embrace the cloud without an integrator having to turn their back completely on the ‘transactional revenue’ of installing new systems."

The full article is here:

Qumulex Seeks To Simplify The Integrator Community’s Transition To The Cloud