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 Protection

  • 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…

  • “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…

  • Chris Andrews, head of risk solutions at Aviva, has confirmed that ‘escape of water’ claims “continue to be our highest frequency claim with steadily increasing costs.” However, Andrews added that fire brings with it the highest severity and claims cost. In fact, fire and ‘escape of water’ costs are not dissimilar. For this reason, Andrews…

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks, explains that server migrations are often necessary whenever there are old systems and or old storage arrays. With higher capacity disk drives that have lower power requirements these can force a migration wherever there is a need to lower power consumption. Equipment failures also occur when products reach…

  • In this article for Impact Magazine (page 9), Graham Jarvis looks at “THE TRUE COST OF LAPTOP OWNERSHIP FOR IT AND FINANCE MANAGERS. Bit.ly/2DCNzVL Author: Graham Jarvis. 

  • David Trossell’s advice is as follows: “Santa is asking the same questions that many other companies are asking – how it will improve my infrastructure and reduce costs but still stay relevant? Many are looking to use the hybrid cloud as part of an infrastructure solution. This will maximise the existing infrastructure whilst allowing to…

  • …Gemma Baker adds that, in compliance with data protection regulations such as the European Union’s GDPR, all of the live chat conversations are backed up to the cloud for a specific period of time. However, she adds: “Some organisations will transfer these chats into their own systems.”, which is advisable because organisations shouldn’t overly rely…

  • John S. Franklin, a spokesperson for insurance company Aviva, says connected services cover a wide range of products and propositions – from driver assistance and driver wellbeing to vehicle maintenance and breakdown prevention. Maps, in-car wi-fi and infotainment are other examples of connected services.

  • Bridgework’s core technology enables organizations to achieve almost maximum bandwidth utilization despite any potential latency. They accomplish this by creating a high level of parallelism and by optimizing packet size for the given state of the WAN. The solutions use an artificial intelligence engine to analyze the condition of the WAN connection continuously to determine…

  • A live chat solutions provider such as Click4Assistance, will always ensure security is a priority. This will involve ringfencing data on quarantined servers, encrypting data at the highest levels, blocking any malicious code that’s entered into a live session, doing regular and extensive testing including penetration testing to ensure data resilience. Unfortunately, the American provider…