Welcome to the newest member of the MVaaS community, www.gotomycamera.com. This service, which has been launched by Eptascape, is entirely web hosted and provides storage of IP camera originated video. A user can log in from anywhere on the Internet and access their video.
The system is using Amazon’s cloud storage, so they should be able [...]
We recently underwent a re-engineering of our Internet facing infrastructure to increase resilience and redundancy. We utilized a boutique network consulting firm that has designed the infrastructure of such giants as facebook and myspace.
Our Internet facing infrastructure is pretty standard: redundant firewalls, load balancers, and network switches. With this new network design, we can undergo [...]
I read an interesting article in Hospitality Technology entitled “Protect Everyone Involved: Basic PCI Compliance Tips“. This is a good article about why you should be interested in PCI compliance if you are a restaurateur. However, it omits one important consideration.
The article omits the need to consider any device that is part of the [...]
I’ve been deluged with thousands of responses to my retail exception reporting quiz (well, would you believe, hundreds? how about 10?). The answer, was that #1 came from a restaurant and #2 from a retailer. Hard to tell them apart, eh?
Wouldn’t it be interesting to combine a state-of-the-art, purpose built exception reporting system with state [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about exception reporting. Recently we received two requests for exception reports in the same day. Here are two examples:
#1 Indicate when the quantity of line item voids within a single transaction exceeds a threshold
#2 Indicate number of cashiers whose count of voids in a single day exceeded a threshold
One [...]
I received two requests for exception reporting linked to video last week. One from a prospective customer who is in trials with Envysion and one in the form of an RFP. Both came from loss prevention staff. Both are interested in using Envysion’s video and reporting functions for LP activities.
It is interesting how these two [...]
My last posts MVaaS and Enterprise Hosted Video Compared and Managed Video as a Service Explained, introduced the difference between MVaaS and Enterprise Hosted Video as well as the common benefits they both provide. This is the fifth of 5 posts in a series about the differences. (The previous were MVaaS Total Cost of Ownership, [...]
My last posts MVaaS and Enterprise Hosted Video Compared and Managed Video as a Service Explained, introduced the difference between MVaaS and Enterprise Hosted Video as well as the common benefits they both provide. This is the fourth of 5 posts in a series about the differences. (The previous were MVaaS Total Cost of Ownership, [...]
My last posts MVaaS and Enterprise Hosted Video Compared and Managed Video as a Service Explained, introduced the difference between MVaaS and Enterprise Hosted Video as well as the common benefits they both provide. This is the third of 5 posts in a series about the differences. (The previous were MVaaS Total Cost of Ownership [...]
My last posts MVaaS and Enterprise Hosted Video Compared and Managed Video as a Service Explained, introduced the difference between MVaaS and Enterprise Hosted Video as well as the common benefits they both provide. This is the second of 5 posts in a series about the differences. (The previous was MVaaS Total Cost of Ownership).
This [...]
