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: Big Data – IT

  • …Bridgeworks has solved TSM performance issues for clients only 1 ms apart and using dark fibre pipes. They can now replicate cross-site, simultaneously over their old 10Gb pipes, not only saving a tonne of cash in the process but more importantly bringing their ability to recover well below their SLA’s (RTO).

  • CCI’s Graham Jarvis looks at one of the threats datacentres can’t defend against, flooding, and demonstrates a way to carry on delivering a service even when your servers are 10 feet under water.

  • All the latest connected cars trends in India explored by Graham Jarvis. India manufactures about 3M cars a year and half a million of them are exported, claims Kumar Kandaswami, senior director of Deloitte India. His research finds that 60% of all cars purchased in the country are small hatchbacks but small saloons and SUVs…

  • Bridgeworks says it can make communicating with offsite tape libraries vastly faster than physically shipping tapes, and vastly cheaper if you are using a remote Fibre Channel SAN or site-to-site replication before transmitting data to the tape library. The basic pitch is: "Don't do this. Send your data direct to a SCSI tape library interface…

  • The severe floods that hit the north of England and parts of Scotland in December 2015 and January 2016 devastated both homes and businesses, and led to questions about whether the UK is sufficiently prepared to cope with such calamities….Graham Jarvis looks at why disaster recovery and IT service continuity are the best insurance policy.

  • "Our expectations of our interaction with computers have developed in the age of search. As users when we make a query we get an answer. Sometimes there’s a really good match between what we wanted to know and the answers we get. Sometimes there isn’t. Search is good for some types of query but bad…

  • Graham Jarvis looks at the best way to move your desktop infrastructure to the cloud and looks at the options available in the virtual desktop market.

  • “Bridgeworks has found way to improve wide area TCP/IP transmission of large, streamed files that compensates for packet loss, radically improving the performance of NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault which are hobbled by packet loss. It’s been working on the technology to virtualise a TCP/IP connection for several years…” Read the complete article by Chris Mellor.

  • Bridgeworks launches transformational machine intelligence solution – PORTrockIT. Data accelerate your business and networks:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bridgeworks-launches-transformational-machine-solution-graham-jarvis?trk=hp-feed-article-title-publish. Client: Bridgeworks. Date: 1st December 2015.

  • Without mitigating network latency, businesses could be putting themselves at risk of failure. See more at: http://www.information-age.com/technology/data-centre-and-it-infrastructure/123460543/how-reduce-business-risk-created-distance#sthash.XNeIlso1.dpuf Published by Information Age on 23rd November 2015. Clients: Luminous P.R. and Bridgeworks.