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: Data Acceleration

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The key to creating the future data centre is for vendors to offer you as a customer what they really need today for tomorrow’s future. With growing data volumes datacentres need to evolve. Datacentres are known in some circles as the “digital core”, and as such they are having to adopt to an increasing array…

  • Clive Longbottom, Client Services Director of analyst firm Quocirca, says that ransomware attacks don’t usually begin with a DDoS attack: “This is quite an unusual one. The core ransomware attacks are carried out through dropping emails or web links through to individuals who then download a payload onto their machine. That payload then, at some…

  • There is one crucial hurdle that the researchers need to overcome: The data is not readily available, and so people need to be encouraged to share their biological data. Even in this field, data privacy is important and people will want to know that the data is being used for a good purpose. You must…

  • ComputerWeekly’s Cliff Saran wrote that “AWS Outage Shows Vulnerability of Cloud Disaster Recovery” in his article of March 6, 2017. He cites the S3 outage suffered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) on February 28, 2017, as an example of the risks you face by running critical systems in the public cloud. “The consensus is that…

  • Organisations are so quick to adopt new technologies that they often overlook the value legacy devices have to offer. Scott Jeschonek, Director of Cloud Solutions at Avere Systems thinks that while oil and water don’t mix, legacy and cloud do in comparison. In spite of the hype about moving applications to the cloud and about…

  • There is an overarching fear that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning are going to take over people’s jobs, but there is a counter argument that their main purpose is to support humans as enabling technologies. In their proponents’ viewpoint, they aren’t disabling anyone.  However, organisations that don’t train up their staff now to learn…

  • Clive Longbottom, Client Services Director at analyst firm Quocirca commented on Facebook: “I’m assuming that should this NHS attack be shown to be down to cost-cutting measures and corner-cutting by the many private companies involved, they will be held responsible for the financial costs involved, and that their management will be held responsible for manslaughter…