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

  • Could big data be the key to curing cancer? Many people have been lost to cancer, and everybody can potentially get one form of cancer or another. The race is therefore on to find a cure. Increasingly, pharmaceutical companies and organisations conducting research to push cancer into history realise that the answer may lie in…

  • Network transformation is required to make way for the large amounts of data that will be transferred over 5G. An International media company wants to consolidate its video editing operations in New York and London. This will split their video data between their offices in the two cities. In London 60TB will be stored there,…

  • Given that the AWS outage was caused by human error, the first question I’d ask is whether blaming the public cloud for the outage is fair. ComputerWeekly’s Cliff Saran writes that ‘AWS Outage Shows Vulnerability of Cloud Disaster Recovery’ in his article of 6th March 2017. He cites the S3 outage suffered by Amazon Web…

  • Why do people think edge computing will blow away the cloud? This claim appears in many online articles. Clint Boulton, for example, discusses it in his March 6 article at Asia Cloud Forum, “Edge Computing Will Blow Away the Cloud.” He cites venture capitalist Andrew Levine, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, who believes more…

  • Challenges of realising the platooning dream explored by Graham Jarvis. The impression that many people get is that driverless cars may grab the headlines but semi-automated convoys of trucks are much closer to being seen on the nation’s roads. While that may be true, companies such as BP Ventures are investors in truck platooning with…

  • The key to creating the future data centre is for vendors to offer you as a customer what they really need today for tomorrow’s future. With growing data volumes datacentres need to evolve. Datacentres are known in some circles as the “digital core”, and as such they are having to adopt to an increasing array…

  • Graham Jarvis investigates how automated and connected mobility can influence the roadmap to intelligent traffic management. PwC’s Connected and Autonomous Vehicles – Revolutionising Mobility In Society report finds that over 50% of all surveyed respondents feel that their mobility is restricted and yet the consultancy firm argues that “greater mobility could improve access to education, employment and…

  • There is one crucial hurdle that the researchers need to overcome: The data is not readily available, and so people need to be encouraged to share their biological data. Even in this field, data privacy is important and people will want to know that the data is being used for a good purpose. You must…

  • ComputerWeekly’s Cliff Saran wrote that “AWS Outage Shows Vulnerability of Cloud Disaster Recovery” in his article of March 6, 2017. He cites the S3 outage suffered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) on February 28, 2017, as an example of the risks you face by running critical systems in the public cloud. “The consensus is that…

  • Now there is Edge Computing, which some people are also calling Fog Computing and which some industry commentators feel is going to replace the Cloud as an entity. Just about every new piece of technology is considered disruptive to the extent that they are expected to replace older technologies. Sometimes as with the cloud, old…