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: Digital Transformation

  • To achieve synchronicity, Investec turned to Bridgeworks. As part of proof of concept, an MPLS WAN link was used, with a handover from one SP to another between continents with Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Operating systems on Dell commodity systems. Even Santa is impressed with the results the bank achieved. With its measurement and…

  • Unsure about what WAN Acceleration, also referred to as WAN Data Acceleration, is or does? Well, it's not WAN optimisation – nor is it an SD-WAN. However, this video explains that it goes a lot further than other available technologies to mitigate the effects of latency and packet loss. Find out how, watch this Bridgeworks…

  • …organisations may deploy SD-WANs for accelerating digital transformation, to manage the explosion of application traffic to the cloud – as well as the need for “homogeneous network performance at all sites”, but there is still the question about whether all of the claims stack up. Arguably, SD-WANs need a WAN Data Acceleration overlay for digital…

  • Chris Andrews, head of risk management solutions at Aviva, finds that, at present, there doesn’t seem to be a default position among construction companies when it comes to installing leak detection. That being so, there’s a need for an ongoing campaign to raise awareness and understanding of the benefits of water leak detection systems in…

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks adds: “All this use of IoT sensors and the use of AI to drive diagnosis and management could be stalled by the use of the pen and paper. The question is how to replace them? For many the pen is still quicker to use then a keyboard and…

  • Geoff Tunbridge – Director Solution Consulting for APAC at ACI Worldwide, talked about real-time payments. He discussed the state of play, the lessons that have been learnt and how to make money from real-time payments. He warned that having a real-time payments scheme doesn’t automatically translate into instant success. Clear use cases are essential, with…

  • Thankfully, cross-border payments are getting faster. In a panel session featuring experts from organisations such as the Bank of England, Deutsche Bank, and InstaRem, it was revealed that the fastest cross-border instant payment was completed within 13 seconds. There are more connections between systems today, making such results as this possible. Singapore, Australia and in…

  • “bunq is one of a number of challenger banks shaking the status quo like N26 and Monzo. The key is that their appeal to particularly expats as they make it simple and nearly free to look after your money” – Chris Skinner, a co-founder of the UK’s Financial Services Club

  • 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…