So recently I had my galbladder out, so I didn’t have as much time to write, or work for that matter.  I came back to my job to see that I had close to 4000 emails.  Err…  I can assure you that this is a very fun process of going through e-mails…or not.  What I wanted to talk about today is  what most people in the MDM space have seen happening over the past few years.  When setting up MDM/ or any application or service that can go in the cloud, you are going to have to deal with a decision.  Do we want it behind our firewall, or do you want it out in the cloud.  Do we want it here, or do we want to use a SaaS (Software as a service) or a  connector to get to that machine.  I am going to attempt to explain the differences here.  Now Obviously I assume you are going to have a whole team of network engineers, software engineers and really smart people who have put much more thought into this then you, this is just some basics.

On-Premise

The general concept behind on-premise is that you want to have control of the system.  You want to be able to patch it, you want to have it on your hardware, you do not want someone to have control over its SLA’s (service delivery times) In other words You want to control the success of it.

Hosted/SaaS/Cloud

In this situation, you use some sort of VPN or connector to connect your corporate environment out to a cloud solution.  In this case, you are saying that you do not want to have to deal with patching this, dealing with its up time, the only part of the equation that you are responsible for is the connection via the VPN or SaaS.