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: Clients, Past and Present

  • The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on data centres with the increased shift towards remote and home-working. The biggest winner in technology terms is the cloud. Zeus Kerravala states: “Perhaps no technology industry benefitted more from the pandemic than cloud computing; the location independence of cloud services makes them ideal for a world…

  • Mark Siswick, Executive Headteacher of Chesterton Primary School, in south London, and co-founder of the Wandle Learning Trust, was honoured for services to education in the New Year’s Honours list by being awarded an MBE. The Northern Echo writes: “During the pandemic, he helped to create a national home learning programme, filming more than 100…

  • Graham Jarvis reports on why digital transformation in healthcare needs WAN acceleration. Over the last few years healthcare across the world has, like many other industries, embraced digital transformation. During the Covid-19 pandemic this has accelerated in that an increasing number of patients were seen by their GPs over video conferencing, otherwise known as remote…

  • Daimler predicts that connected, autonomous, shared and electric (CASE) ‘intuitive mobility’ will succeed in turning the automotive industry upside down. It thinks a true revolution is afoot, combining each component into one comprehensive, seamless mobility package. The company adds on its website: “For many years, Daimler has been investing in mobility, which goes beyond the…

  • In banking and finance – particularly on trading floors, trust is often considered to be at the core of maintaining and achieving compliance. The sector’s traditional approach involves implementing soft policies that are focused on mutual trust, which isn’t sufficient to prevent significant and costly regulatory breaches in regulated areas, such as trading floors. In…

  • Traditionally insurance policies focus on the vehicle and its users. Even with fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) they will concentrate on the vehicles. However, liability may rest more with the automotive manufacturers than with an autonomous car, van or trucks users. What’s missing, says Tony Fish, chief executive of Digital20 and an artificial intelligence expert, is…

  • Bridgeworks CEO, David Trossell speaks to Digitalisation World about WAN, SD-Wan and WAN Optimimisation Trends for 2021. It’s often advisable to look back before stepping forward. While the adage is that history often repeats itself, hindsight is still an invaluable tool, as it allows us to learn from our mistakes. The key to success is…

  • The monitoring of personal mobile devices is carried out through “soft policies” which are based on trust rather than compliance. These are simply ineffective, especially now with traders returning to offices and revised layouts to account for social distancing. This provides a greater challenge for supervisors/spotters to identify breaches. With home working continuing for the…

  • The Covid-19 pandemic is causing tectonic plates to slide in the automotive industry, and in indeed in many others. However, it’s not the only factor that is causing a shift. Consumer purchasing behaviour, electric vehicle adoption is increasing, connect and autonomous vehicle technology is important, and there is a push to, as Markus Winkler is…

  • Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have a future. That is without doubt but there is still a need to ensure that they will be safe on our highways and to ease the public’s safety concerns to increase their adoption over the next few years. CAVs need to be able to react to unforeseen events –…