Cozaint Brings LTO-Based MARCIA Integration to Milestone XProtect, Enabling Long-Term Video Retention

Cozaint Corporation, the Intelligent Video Lifecycle Management company, has announced the commercial availability of its patented MARCIA platform for Milestone XProtect video management software environments. The announcement was made at GSX 2026 in Atlanta. MARCIA enables organizations using Milestone XProtect to extend video retention beyond traditional primary-storage limits while continuing to use XProtect exactly as they do today. This development matters because video retention has historically been constrained by the economics of disk-only storage, forcing organizations to overwrite footage after 30, 60, or 90 days. As camera counts, resolutions, frame rates, compliance requirements, legal exposure, and AI analytics use cases continue to expand, the ability to preserve video for months or years becomes critical.

MARCIA continuously replicates newly recorded video in the background to LTO-based long-term storage, typically within a couple of minutes of the original write. This provides XProtect customers with what Cozaint believes is the lowest-cost architecture available for video surveillance retention. The platform operates behind the scenes within the customer's existing surveillance architecture. The VMS remains the day-to-day operational platform for live viewing, recording, user management, alarms, investigations, and security workflows. MARCIA extends the long-term value of the video managed by the VMS by enabling organizations to preserve video beyond normal retention windows and retrieve it when needed.

Importantly, MARCIA does not interrupt XProtect's normal recording workflow. Cameras continue recording into the customer's existing XProtect primary storage environment. In near real time MARCIA operates in the background to replicate and organize newly recorded video onto LTO-based storage. This process occurs without interrupting ongoing XProtect recording. Security operators continue using XProtect normally for live monitoring, playback, alarms, and investigations, while MARCIA continuously builds the long-term retention copy behind the scenes.

For Milestone XProtect environments, MARCIA supports long-term video retention workflows including automated tiered-storage management, LTO-based preservation, camera/date/time-based retrieval, metadata-aware recall, and restoration of historical video back into the XProtect workflow. The objective is simple: XProtect continues operating as XProtect, while MARCIA extends how long the organization can preserve and retrieve the video XProtect records. As AI and video analytics become increasingly important to physical security and business operations, historical video is becoming more valuable. However, AI cannot analyze video that has already been deleted. MARCIA helps organizations preserve the long-term visual history required for future analysis, pattern discovery, incident review, and business intelligence. Cozaint refers to this as Enterprise Visual Continuity, preserving Trusted Visual Evidence over time so organizations can continue using and learning from video long after it was recorded.

The key benefits of MARCIA for Milestone XProtect environments include extended video retention, LTO-based long-term preservation, reduced disk dependency, continuous background replication, AI-ready historical video, and evidence preservation. Organizations can better retain Trusted Visual Evidence for legal defense, incident review, risk management, and compliance-driven retention needs. MARCIA support for Milestone XProtect environments is commercially available from Cozaint Corporation. Organizations, integrators, and Milestone ecosystem partners interested in long-term video retention management for XProtect environments can visit www.Cozaint.com. XProtect is a registered trademark of Milestone Systems A/S. Cozaint is a registered trademark of Cozaint Corporation. MARCIA is a trademark of Cozaint Corporation.

Cozaint Corporation, founded in 2018, is advancing the emerging discipline of Intelligent Video Lifecycle Management (IVLM) for enterprise surveillance environments. Through its patented MARCIA platform and ALICE family of solutions, Cozaint helps organizations preserve, manage, retrieve, and unlock the long-term value of Trusted Visual Evidence across existing video management system environments. Cozaint's technology enables Enterprise Visual Continuity for investigations, compliance, legal defense, operational intelligence, and future AI analysis while reducing the long-term cost burden of traditional disk-only video retention architectures. For Texas businesses and organizations relying on video surveillance, this integration could mean significant cost savings and enhanced capabilities for security and compliance. Learn more at www.Cozaint.com.