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 investigation of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) into the energy market has once again highlighted that the market is ripe for disruption and innovation. – Graham Jarvis takes a closer look.  Publication: Business Reporter, published on 17th March 2016.  Clients: Luminous P.R. and Flipper Community

  • “WANdisco is one of three vendors, along with Bridgeworks (network acceleration) and StorReduce (deduplication SW for the cloud) that Amazon rates as partners to be involved in moving enterprise IT estates (compute + storage) to the cloud” – Chris Mellor, The Register.

  • …Bridgeworks has solved TSM performance issues for clients only 1 ms apart and using dark fibre pipes. They can now replicate cross-site, simultaneously over their old 10Gb pipes, not only saving a tonne of cash in the process but more importantly bringing their ability to recover well below their SLA’s (RTO).

  • CCI’s Graham Jarvis looks at one of the threats datacentres can’t defend against, flooding, and demonstrates a way to carry on delivering a service even when your servers are 10 feet under water.

  • “Pregnancy health app Bonzun has launched in the UK after seeing 800,000 downloads from Chinese women and families. The app, founded by a female Swedish entrepreneur, has a symptom checker and health test tracker function for pregnant women to better monitor their health. More than a third of its users are active with nearly 20%…

  • All the latest connected cars trends in India explored by Graham Jarvis. India manufactures about 3M cars a year and half a million of them are exported, claims Kumar Kandaswami, senior director of Deloitte India. His research finds that 60% of all cars purchased in the country are small hatchbacks but small saloons and SUVs…

  • Bridgeworks says it can make communicating with offsite tape libraries vastly faster than physically shipping tapes, and vastly cheaper if you are using a remote Fibre Channel SAN or site-to-site replication before transmitting data to the tape library. The basic pitch is: "Don't do this. Send your data direct to a SCSI tape library interface…

  • The severe floods that hit the north of England and parts of Scotland in December 2015 and January 2016 devastated both homes and businesses, and led to questions about whether the UK is sufficiently prepared to cope with such calamities….Graham Jarvis looks at why disaster recovery and IT service continuity are the best insurance policy.

  • Graham Jarvis' appearance on TV show The Bigger Picture, talking about cyber-crime: https://youtu.be/7XkDGBhW1AA. Broadcast on 1st February 2016. 

  • "Our expectations of our interaction with computers have developed in the age of search. As users when we make a query we get an answer. Sometimes there’s a really good match between what we wanted to know and the answers we get. Sometimes there isn’t. Search is good for some types of query but bad…