This week marks Envysion’s 3rd anniversary in its current form. Three years ago a handful of us started the company with some seed money from our investors, a shell of a struggling legacy company and an idea for a new business model. I am very proud of the team and the accomplishments that we’ve made [...]
I had an interesting conversation with a potential customer today that reinforced one of the key advantages of MVaaS over traditional video services and made me think of it in a slightly different way. One of the topics we touched on was how easy it is with MVaaS to centrally control who has access to [...]
Have you ever heard a requirement or a request from a customer and been tempted to debate with them as to the merits of said request? I’ve seen a lot of people and companies that do exactly that and try to convince someone that what they are asking for doesn’t make any sense. This is [...]
I’m not sure where I learned that phrase. It was either from my long stint in telecom at Level 3, which makes no sense whatsoever, or from my days in consulting at Bain. In either case, the point of the saying is that if you are trying to get your customers to try something, you [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. My lapse in posts resulted from a combination of year-end activity, holidays, a re-imaged laptop that didn’t have my login and a whole host of other not very good excuses. Over the past few weeks I’ve been reflecting on our accomplishments in 2008 and our objectives for 2009. [...]
Doom and gloom. There is certainly enough of it to go around. My commute regularly finds me listening to NPR and lately I’m bombarded with company after company announcing lay offs and all kinds of market pundits saying how bad the economy is and how its going to get worse. Hard to argue with their [...]
A couple of months back I posted about how the impending (at the time I posted it was impending) recession and how I thought it would favor Managed Video as a Service providers. A couple of my arguments for why it would favor companies like Envysion have been playing out in the market The first argument [...]
Not sure if you get Security Systems News, but one of yesterday’s headlines grabbed my attention. The article described the death of a leading technology innovator, Steelbox. To summarize the already short article, Steelbox had an amazing technology solution (see their website – they have some cool overviews and the obligatory technology awards – even [...]
Okay, the only thing worse than a string post is the promise of a string post the next day and then not following up on it for a week. Guilty. Actually there a lot of things worse than either of these things, but my apologies anyway. I posted at some point last week about the [...]
There are a lot of contexts in which you could ask that question. In our case, we have recently been asking ourselves this question in the context of video storage. Unlike traditional DVR solutions, there are two types of video storage in our MVaaS architecture – storage on the customer site on the recorder, and [...]