Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Artificial Intelligence

  • David Smith, chief executive of Global Futures and Foresight says the need to grow and attract digital talent in the insurance industry is not really so much about competition between the different players. The competition that is hotting-up is between insurers and other players – typically with those within the Fintech space, whom aren’t from…

  • Bridgeworks: Congratulations to our international teams for winning ICT product of the year! Bridgeworks data acceleration solutions are developed with machine learning and artificial intelligence systems. Traditional WAN struggle with latency, packet loss and data management and storage issues. Our AI products greatly diminish WAN limitations and increase data transfer speeds up to 200%.

  • Martin Häring, chief marketing officer at Finastra, says there has been “a significant turnaround in banks’ attitudes to the use of cloud in financial services over the last few years – and there’s no doubt this is being driven in part by PSD2 and open banking.”

  • The move being made to make insurance digitally attractive investigated by Graham Jarvis. Published by TU Automotive magazine on 27th April 2019. 

  • …in the normal world of commerce, businesses still have work to do within this new framework of GDPR. They must get to grips with it. Such is the concern with possible breaches and their penalties that some organisations are not only insisting that data is encrypted at rest, but also as it traverses the internal…

  • Martyn Whistler, lead analyst for media and entertainment at Ernst & Young (EY) finds that there are several factors that will drive connected cars are over the forthcoming years. For example, will people commute to work in the future? “In the UK the number of people taking driving tests is down, [and this] is illustrative…

  • CEOs need to share their vision with IT. CEOs don’t usually get involved at a certain point. It’s a numbers game and CEOs can’t look at the numbers in isolation. IT and other aspects of the company should be integrated with the CEO’s vision of the company and how it can be translated into encompassing…

  • Stopping hackers Advertisement Hackers must be stopped at the entry points with firewalls, remote user authentication, security audits, user education and by implementing other processes – including regularly data back-ups. Once they are in, they’re in. With the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), and other data protection initiatives, data should be encrypted at…

  • Hyperconverged bandwagon Anjan concludes, “Although a hyperconverged infrastructure can deliver the same kind of on-demand scalability as the cloud, and in many cases, beat it in terms of TCO, the ability to source IT without having to invest in on-premise infrastructure and management makes it highly unlikely that the cloud will ever go away. Also,…

  • The cloud can mix well with legacy applications, but you should also consider what your organization can do with its existing infrastructure. Cloud backup is advisable, and increasing your network bandwidth won’t necessarily mitigate the latency effects—nor, for that matter, will a rationalization of your networking costs by reducing your network performance. With machine learning,…