The Cloud is a Win-Win for Security Integrators & End Users
With the increasing proliferation of cloud access control choices and increasing demand from customers, savvy security integrators can expand their offerings, and get more business from existing and new customers.
Is the cloud-based access control trend finally “hockey sticking?” For several years predictions that cloud will overtake on-premise access control solutions — particularly in the SMB market — have been swirling around the security industry. While that is not likely to happen any time soon, the difference a year makes is particularly evident when it comes to this technology.
“Right now IHS says cloud access is at 20 percent penetration,” says Steve Van Till, president and CEO, Brivo, Bethesda, Md. “I think in three years it will be more like 50 percent and a steady march to 100 percent … I don’t know of any startups in any industry that aren’t using cloud technology. If you think about it that way, the world isn’t giving birth to any more on-premise-based companies. There are no more programmers [being trained] to write that software. It is gradual, but eventually that whole kind of product goes away.”