My last two 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. Today, I’ll begin a 5 part series that discusses some of the differences.
Total cost of ownership is a well known [...]
Yesterday, I posted an article describing the Enterprise Hosted Model of deploying a security application. Today, I will describe the MVaaS model.
The basic difference is that in the above picture, the security application software is not installed at the enterprise. Instead, the application resides in the network, hosted out of a datacenter (referred to as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I was chatting with my mentor and former boss, Vint Cerf (who, partnered with Bob Kahn, actually did invent the Internet — or at least its core underlying technology) the other day. I have worked with Vint for many years, first when I was active in the IETF as an area director and then later [...]
Monday, I talked about network plug-and-play. Today, let’s explore how to get your IP camera to work with an MVaaS provider. To start with, you probably need to go hunting for someone with some FM skills. Why? Because there are not yet standards defined to allow any IP camera to communicate with any MVaaS provider.
Why [...]
We’ve had a theme of interoperability standards and protocols going here for a week now and I thought I’d continue the trend.
Did you ever wonder why you can go to your local big box retailer, buy one of any number of cable or DSL routers, plug it in at home and it just works? And, [...]
Yesterday I recalled an interesting period of protocol history when the ISO OSI protocols standards battled the IETF standards.
What happened? Well OSI lost and IP won. The reason? I think largely because the IETF was an open standards body whereas ISO was closed.
(oh, and the artwork on Milo’s teeshirt? A large elephant with the ISO [...]
That was a really funny line coined by Milo Medin during the OSI/ IETF wars of the late ‘80s. Back then I was a naïve software developer who had been volunteered to run the OSI area of the IETF. Talk about walking into a buzz saw. See, the problem was that the IETF, the standards [...]
