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Archive for July, 2008

How have you dealt with your limiting constraints?  Were you successful?
In Scott Beck’s address to the team at Envysion, he shared two specific strategies that he has utilized at the companies he has founded and led.  Thanks again, Scott, for sharing your insights!
Alignment
The alignment of a company is of utmost importance.  And it does take long [...]

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Envysion is in a mode of perpetual accelerated change.  Cultural change is everywhere in the business, and expectations have risen dramatically.  Having responsibility for the sales and marketing part of the business, there is no where where expectations have changed more.
With change comes the traditional set of emotions; fear, excitement, uncertainty and more.  What I have seen from my team [...]

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Scott Beck met the team at Envysion yesterday morning.  On behalf of Envysion, thank you Scott for taking the time to speak with us!
In his address, Scott shared his thoughts on what is required to create successful businesses.  These include an attractive and addressable market, a compelling value proposition for the customers, and a committed management team.
However, even [...]

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No doubt about it, MVaaS is a powerful tool.  The benefits of the enhancements in technology and the SaaS business model are well documented both here (MVAAS.com) and elsewhere.  The benefits to operations, loss prevention teams and marketing organizations are equally compelling. 
What isn’t  discussed much is that MVaaS is an enabling technology.  Like the treadmill, if it [...]

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A couple of weeks back I posted about a brief meeting that I had with another CEO in the video space, Patrick Sobalvarro of Intellivid. I mentioned that Patrick, who has been in the video world longer than I have, was gracious enough to share some of his insights and it was a very good [...]

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Yesterday, I wrote about the most common PCI audit failures. Today, I’ll share a few that Envysion encountered. The biggest one? Writing down what was obvious for us to do in the first place. Take our firewall for example. My chief network architecture, Darren Loher (who is a frequent poster to this blog) selected a [...]

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Distributed video storage solution = $900/month.
Centralized storage solution (180T storage using NAS storage solution offsite at a data center)= over $228,000 per month.
‘Nuff said?
I was inspired to write this from John Honovich’s blog post entitled, “Why Centralized NVR Recording Does Not Work”. I wanted to take it a step further with a [...]

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At the intersection of video, data, time and place lies all the value to be gleaned from video.
If you’ve got data which includes a timestamp and a location, wouldn’t it be great if you could just paste a link to the video?  What if some software could automatically do it for you?
If we had a [...]

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I was flying my boat to the moon the other night, when John Glenn asked me to review the list of PCI requirements still to be completed (or remediated, in PCI argot). The list … shows we haven’t started … almost 270 items to go … its all blank … oh no … beep-beep-beep and [...]

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Introducing the new Envysion web site.
Tell us what you think!

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