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: Cloud computing

  • Graham Jarvis assesses the cyber-security risks of emerging autonomous technology. All the major automakers are currently developing autonomous technologies and solutions for their future autonomous vehicles. These technologies introduce new cyber-security vulnerabilities, and some of which require creative assessment techniques to effectively ensure that they are safe from cyber-attacks that could lead to control of…

  • 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…

  • “…Not every cloud has a silver lining”, says David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks. He argues that believing the hype about the cloud isn’t necessarily the way to go. “You have to consider a number of factors such as hybrid cloud, keeping your databases locally, the effect of latency and how you control and…

  • 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…

  • One large global banking firm wanted the ability to back up, restore and recover their data from their datacentres. It thought it had to build another datacentre – not too close, not too far away from its existing datacentre. The thing is this company probably has the facilities it needs on site already. It shouldn’t…