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: Disaster Recovery

  • …in the normal world of commerce, businesses still have work to do within this new framework of GDPR. They must get to grips with it. Such is the concern with possible breaches and their penalties that some organisations are not only insisting that data is encrypted at rest, but also as it traverses the internal…

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks, is featured in IT Pro Portal‘s guide to ransomware.

  • The performance of telecom/IT systems and increasing reliance on data means that inadequacies within a network can lead to expensive business costs. This article examines the Citrix-sponsored research by Tech Research Asia and discusses how these expenses can be minimized. It highlights that poor network connectivity is costing Australian companies an average of 71 hours…

  • As the adoption of cloud moves into more and more organisations along with the growth in unstructured data, there will be a move towards object storage. This will not just occur in the cloud, but as the standard for on premise storage. Object storage removes the limitation on a file systems name space that traditional…

  • …data acceleration can ensure that data can be backed up and retrieved more quickly than ever before. The final tip is to use at least 3 disaster recovery sites to back up data. So, if one goes down, two others can keep you operational – and that’s even better when disaster recovery is achieved seamlessly…

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks Ltd, discusses the changing datacentre in this edition of Networks Europe magazine.   Issue 13 – January/February 2018. By-lined to David Trossell. Client: Trudy Darwin Consulting.       

  • On May 25, 2018, the E.U.’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force. Despite the Brexit negotiations, U.K. companies and even U.S. data centers with customers and customer data residing in the E.U. will have to comply. In fact, any company from any part of the world with customers located within the E.U. must…

  • Traditionally, backing it up isn’t easy. It’s also becoming an important way to share ideas, with social networking sites such as Facebook permitting users to record their own live video streams from their smartphones, PCs and tablets. It’s therefore an influential tool, which even Santa may wish to think about using.

  • If you have a database in the cloud and you are accessing it a lot, the latency will add up. It is sometimes better to hold your databases locally, while putting other applications into the cloud. “Databases tend to access other databases, and so you have to look at the whole picture to take it…

  • Let’s face it, the cloud isn’t for everyone, but nevertheless it has its merits. Yet before you go and invest in new technology or move to it, you should examine whether your existing infrastructure is sufficient to do the job you need it for. Ask yourself questions, including: “the hyperconvergence story: what’s really important?” In…