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Global sales of physical security information management (PSIM) more than doubled from 2009 to 2011, but failed to reach $100 million in 2011, according to a report from IMS Research.

With its acquisition of Systems Integration Corp. (SIC), VTI Security integrators has become the largest privately held systems integration company in the Rocky Mountain region, according to Thomas Asp, VTI’s president and CEO.

Tri-Ed / Northern Video Distribution, based in Woodbury, N.Y., announced a partnership with Denver-based structured cabling solutions manufacturer comCables to take advantage of each company’s position in the IP convergence space.

RFI Communications & Security Systems (RFI), San Jose, Calif., is not beginning to learn IT’s lingo, trying to harness the network or ramping up its comfort level with IT. The company already has implemented cloud-based solutions that other companies are just now diving into.

In systems integrator circles, Convergint Technologies is a company that people admire. Homegrown by Greg Lernihan, president and co-founder, and Dan Moceri, CEO and co-founder, Convergint was born of a strategic plan that centered on a core platform of values and beliefs.

A just-released report from IMS Research, Wellingborough, U.K., predicts that the security systems market in the Americas will grow at an average rate of 7 percent per year to more than $30 billion by 2016.

As many systems integrators may have noticed, the number of large-scale government and enterprise implementations isn’t what it used to be, which can make it difficult to compete in a market that’s growing more competitive all the time.

The first step was a name change to distinguish ADT’s residential and commercial business sides, but the biggest change came yesterday when Tyco Integrated Security (TIS) shed its ADT roots altogether as part of parent company Tyco International’s split into three separate, publicly traded companies.

With its second acquisition since its founding in February, Carrollton, Texas-based Securadyne Systems instantly gained a strong foothold in the Northeast, which was an area where Securadyne had no real presence.

The security and video surveillance market is changing as all areas of the enterprise embrace the capabilities of networking. The surveillance market looks a lot different than it did several years ago when analog technologies were the norm and most security systems operated independently.