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: Business Continuity

  • With many lockdowns across the world easing, questions are being asked about what’s going to happen next; including whether the ‘new normal’ of remote working will remain a key trend over the months and years to come. Remote working changes many things: it has a decentralizing because data traffic flows become more widely dispersed. While…

  • “As a company, we believe it can accelerate the critical path of discovery of a cure, and good outcomes for COVID-19 researchers and as a British Company, Bridgeworks already has a widely published track record with significant international reach.”

  • David Trossell, CEO of global data acceleration company Bridgeworks, says that ‘it doesn’t matter where in the world we work with customers; they all have the same problem: latency. In Africa, distances are vast between centres – places such as Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. They are no different to our customers in Los Angeles,…

  • "The UK’s Crown Commercial Services office has selected Bridgeworks to offer the NHS and qualifying medical research organisations data management services over the next 12 months, at no cost. Bridgeworks is making available its PORTrockIT IP network acceleration products free of charge for one year, to any Health Organisation or Medical Research Establishment engaged in…

  • WAN data acceleration, also known as WAN Acceleration, is the only way to mitigate the effects of latency and packet loss in any meaningful way. Traditionally, the answer has been to move data centres or disaster recovery sites closer to each other to reduce latency. However, if they are within the same circles of disruption…

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks comments: “SD-WANs are the new kid on the block. They are a great tool, and in the right place they are a great asset, but they don’t x all the network issues when working with the cloud and data centres. SD-WAN has many advantages when, government and public…

  • The race is on to find a #vaccine to #Coronavirus COVID-19. Bridgeworks has joined the effort. Bridgeworks offers its PORTrockIT products to qualifying organisations over the next twelve months, at no cost.

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks, argues hyperconverged systems have many benefits to the smaller healthcare providers. “By consolidating down multiple technologies from multiple providers for all the separate equipment that forms a modern data centre, along with all the differing support contracts and possible iteroparity issues that can occur, hyperconverged brings this all…

  • Research by Gallup finds that with job flexibility, including remote working, there are also higher levels of employee engagement. In an article entitled, ‘Is Working Remotely Effective? Gallup Research Says Yes’, Adam Hickman, PH.D. and Jennifer Robison write: “Leaders and managers need to be aware that, as working remotely becomes more common, companies that can’t…

  • To achieve synchronicity, Investec turned to Bridgeworks. As part of proof of concept, an MPLS WAN link was used, with a handover from one SP to another between continents with Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Operating systems on Dell commodity systems. Even Santa is impressed with the results the bank achieved. With its measurement and…