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

  • In this edition of Data Centre News, David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks Ltd, examines 'Tomorrow's World' and the digital core. Find out more, read the article here: https://issuu.com/atmltd/docs/dcn-dec2017. Published in December 2017.

  • Traditionally, backing it up isn’t easy. It’s also becoming an important way to share ideas, with social networking sites such as Facebook permitting users to record their own live video streams from their smartphones, PCs and tablets. It’s therefore an influential tool, which even Santa may wish to think about using.

  • If you have a database in the cloud and you are accessing it a lot, the latency will add up. It is sometimes better to hold your databases locally, while putting other applications into the cloud. “Databases tend to access other databases, and so you have to look at the whole picture to take it…

  • David Trossell – CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks – and Graham Jarvis – freelance technology and business journalist – discuss the changing attitude of banks to technologies, like the cloud. Learn more here. Published by Information Age on 22nd May 2018. 

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks, examines how artificial intelligence and machine learning can support humans and networks in this article for Data Center Journal. There is an overarching fear that artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning will take over people’s jobs, but a counterargument is that their main purpose is to support humans…

  • Let’s face it, the cloud isn’t for everyone, but nevertheless it has its merits. Yet before you go and invest in new technology or move to it, you should examine whether your existing infrastructure is sufficient to do the job you need it for. Ask yourself questions, including: “the hyperconvergence story: what’s really important?” In…

  • Time is also running out rapidly for GDPR compliance; the regulations come into force in May 2018, and so there’s no time to waste. If you haven’t started the process yet, then start saving up for the fines because these are not going to be cheap. For example, last year, Talk Talk’s fine of £400,000…

  • 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…

  • Organisations in the financial services industry should invest in data acceleration solutions to help them stay ahead of their competitors. With financial services being ever increasingly data-driven, the cost-focus of data management needs to shift because data is a company’s most invaluable asset. Organisations therefore need to ask themselves questions about how to invest wisely…

  • 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,…