A common question is what is really the benefit of using MVaaS versus simply hosting the software at my enterprise? In other words, why not just buy a software package that supports all the MVaaS features via a web interface, but install it myself in my datacenter?

I am starting today a series of posts that will explore the pros and cons of these two scenarios. To begin with I’ll start with a diagram of the enterprise hosted model.

The general model is that the customer deploys an enterprise video management system in their corporate datacenter. Each remote location is connected to that datacenter via a VPN. Remote video is captured at each location using a DVR and all the DVRs are interconnected via the VPN network. Typically, a user could connect to the enterprise hosted application and then interact with any of the remote video sites

I call this configuration the Enterprise Hosted Model. I’ll introduce the MVaaS model next. After that, I’ll provide a series of posts with the pros and cons of each model.