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 centre/data center

  • Steven Umbehocker, CEO/CTO, OSNEXUS Corporation, comments regarding metro clusters, “Recovery time objectives are critical to most organisations, so that’s imperative to allow enough performance to keep up with the data ingest rate at a primary site. The other key thing with metro clusters is that they are an increasingly in-demand architecture, where the storage is…

  • Loving data is about protecting it, no matter what. However, it’s also about having the ability to restore data quickly whenever it is needed. The trouble is, the further away organizations are from their data centers, the more they can face the imps of latency and packet loss. Although a good technology, not even SD-WANs…

  • With Wide Area Network traffic expected to increase, despite the financial and economic challenges that most enterprises, people, and markets are facing, data center engineer Aelfraedis advised Santa to consider implementing a WAN Acceleration overlay onto his SD-WANs. This is because Santa Inc. needs to maximize bandwidth utilization, while mitigating the effects of latency and…

  • Data is very much behind the success of Black Friday – particularly for e-commerce operations. So it’s no surprise that new research from Oxylabs, in collaboration with CensusWide, reveals that 85% of ecommerce organisations have chosen to make more significant use of data to attract customers. In response to their survey of over 1,000 UK…

  • The witches have used WAN Optimization in the past, but they have found that it doesn’t live up to their expectations. Halloween is here again, and the witches are hard at work. Yet, their Wide Area Networks are suffering from jitter and packet loss caused by the specter of latency. It’s more trick than treat…

  • The effects of the pandemic over the past couple of years has hastened the move towards digital transformation of many companies – and to the cloud in many cases. Organisations concerned for the safety of their personnel and what shape organisations will look like in the future, moved from a traditional capital expenditure (CapEx) model,…

  • With data volumes increasing, healthcare organisations are having to handle, move and back-up growing amounts of data. Even though there is a shift to mobile networks, SD-WANs and to edge computing, there is still a need to find ways to analyse, securely back up, and restore terabytes of data from a wide array of different…

  • When tech encourages more data, you have to increase your performance. Software-defined WANs are a great technology and Robert Sturt, Managing Director of Netify, argues that they’re “the most fundamental change in networking since MPLS took over from frame relay and asynchronous transfer mode.” He believes SD-WANs are the beginning of the technology stack journey…

  • The Covid-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation and the need for IT departments to adapt to the working from home environment. While in recent months there has been a call from large corporates for the return of their staff to the office, many people have continued to work from their home offices. Some organizations have realized…

  • What are the options for speeding WAN and storage? With Christmas just around the corner, Santa is reviewing his IT budget for the festive season and for the year ahead. Much has had to change over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, with many of his elves having to work from home. He’s also had…