Thank you for the reply. I do not have a firm budget on the project, but I know we spent quite a bit on our first license with Exacq. We use Vivotek cameras (which appear to be one of the better supported brands fortunately.) Live monitoring is required, one local site 24/7.
Our Exaq has failed on us twice, and began deleting footage well before it was supposed to based on time/storage restrictions. Every time I mention that, I feel the need to mention that the problem might be 100% on our end. Their software might be fine. However, their support has been horrendous.
Most of the cameras run .h264 (one randomly runs MJPEG for some reason, but that can easily be taken care of)
Right now, the idea is to run the software on a Dell R410 (4x1.8ghz, 16gb of RAM, 3 500gb HDs @raid 5) I'm thinking some sort of a NAS situation is going to be unavoidable, but my first step is the pick out the software which will initially record the video.
Thank you both for your replies, I will look into the suggestions!