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 Management

  • Investec turned to WAN Data Acceleration solutions from Bridgeworks. The kit comprised an MPLS WAN link, with a handover from one SP to another between continents with Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Operating systems on Dell commodity systems. The results of introducing the new technology have been stark. Using the company’s measurement and utilisation tools,…

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of WAN data acceleration company Bridgeworks, offers some supporting comments: “The one thing that companies overlook when considering the Cloud is the latency between the data point and the Cloud. This can have a dramatic effect on the performance of the connection. For those time critical operations, it is better…

  • Michael Wakley, CEO of water leak detection solutions provider Leaksafe, says the high cost of Escape of Water claims in the UK, over £930 million in 2018 according to the ABI, is leading insurers to “actively encourage their policyholders to proactively manage risk in their properties.” Nowhere is this more crucial, given that data is…

  • With a suite of sensors, it’s possible to gather all of the types of information required to keep connected and autonomous vehicles safe on the road. While the data is collated from radar, LiDAR and cameras, the information gleaned from them has to become fused to create a complete and comprehensive view of the world…

  • During the plenary session, the Chairman of SWIFT, Yawar Shah, said that advancements in the banking and payments sector requires “innovation with a coalition of the willing” – a global co-operative of SWIFT member organisations working together to effect change – moving away from focusing on driving efficiencies alone to investing in people, knowledge, skills…

  • At a very basic level, all directors, including your MD, should back up all their data, personal and corporate, using a variety of cloud services, such as Dropbox or Google Drive. It’s often a good idea to get back-up solutions on more than one service to be sure work can continue unabated even if disaster…

  • Early in 2019 Brian Chidester, Senior Industry Lead for Public Sector at OpenText, wrote about the trends that will affect the public sector this year. In his blog for the company, it stated that ‘2019 technology trends driving IT modernisation in the Public Sector’… Continue reading Public Sector Technology: Be Smart With WAN Data Acceleration…

  • In celebration, David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks comments: “This win validates the expertise of the Bridgeworks team and PORTrockIT’s ability to mitigate latency and reduce packet loss by using a winning combination of AI, machine learning and WAN Data Acceleration to achieve higher levels of WAN performance than would normally be possible with…

  • “If your data protection or cybersecurity plan includes the use of the wrong VPN, you could be unwittingly putting yourself in a much worse position than if you had no protection plan at all. I believe bad cybersecurity is much worse than no cybersecurity at all, and the best intentions in the world can still…