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: Information Communications Technology

  • The move being made to make insurance digitally attractive investigated by Graham Jarvis. Published by TU Automotive magazine on 27th April 2019. 

  • …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.

  • Martyn Whistler, lead analyst for media and entertainment at Ernst & Young (EY) finds that there are several factors that will drive connected cars are over the forthcoming years. For example, will people commute to work in the future? “In the UK the number of people taking driving tests is down, [and this] is illustrative…

  • CEOs need to share their vision with IT. CEOs don’t usually get involved at a certain point. It’s a numbers game and CEOs can’t look at the numbers in isolation. IT and other aspects of the company should be integrated with the CEO’s vision of the company and how it can be translated into encompassing…

  • Stopping hackers Advertisement Hackers must be stopped at the entry points with firewalls, remote user authentication, security audits, user education and by implementing other processes – including regularly data back-ups. Once they are in, they’re in. With the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), and other data protection initiatives, data should be encrypted at…

  • Hyperconverged bandwagon Anjan concludes, “Although a hyperconverged infrastructure can deliver the same kind of on-demand scalability as the cloud, and in many cases, beat it in terms of TCO, the ability to source IT without having to invest in on-premise infrastructure and management makes it highly unlikely that the cloud will ever go away. Also,…

  • The cloud can mix well with legacy applications, but you should also consider what your organization can do with its existing infrastructure. Cloud backup is advisable, and increasing your network bandwidth won’t necessarily mitigate the latency effects—nor, for that matter, will a rationalization of your networking costs by reducing your network performance. With machine learning,…

  • 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…

  • While the British government, among other across the globe, is putting its faith in an autonomous vehicle future, consumers are maintaining a certain degree of opposition to this technology. Southampton University reported in September 2017 that it had joined forces with comprethemarket.com to future-gaze, and they found that 73% of Brits oppose driverless cars because…