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

  • Ian Finlay, Abiquo’s VP of Product, explains why his company’s new AnyCloud service will change the way enterprises manage IT processes, including approvals for expenditure, and deployment, in-depth auditing and security patch levels.. “When enterprises use the public cloud they lose access to the ability to provide oversight and so we have to give a…

  • The reseller market is not geared towards selling the cloud because it’s a completely different model, said Rob Christ the CEO of Storgrid. But, he said, with its eponymous enterprise file service 2.0 solution resellers, telcos, systems integrators and distributors have the opportunity to build or customise their file and sync solutions to meet their…

  • Graham Jarvis writes: “The SME business cloud back-up market is worth $1.5bn, and hard drive leader Western Digital hopes to gain a 10% market share of it over the next five years, equating to $150m. For now the key trends are about virtualisation, managing both physical and virtual servers, the unabated growth of data storage,…

  • Graham Jarvis, the former editor of MforMobile and TheWhereBusiness, looks at why location-based marketing offers a significant opportunity to segment customers in his article for Mobile Marketing magazine.

  • The European Union’s moves towards an open data directive, updating the terms of the reuse of public sector information, will create 58,000 jobs in the UK up to 2017 and will add £216bn to the country’s economy, according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

  • Premier Inn first launched its mobile app in January 2011, generating revenues of over £1m within three months. The app has achieved two million downloads to date….Graham Jarvis writes for ComputerWeekly.

  • Customers need to shop anytime and from any device these days. If your e-commerce website goes down your competitors could profit from your troubles. The whole point in having an e-commerce site is to offer customers the ability to access your products and services even when your physical store is closed. So the cost of…

  • VMware recently announced that it is acquiring cloud automation vendor DynamicOps, but the terms of the deal have not as yet been disclosed. Richard Krueger, CEO of DynamicOps, says VMware chose to buy his company “because we have the best technology for managing heterogeneous cloud platforms and management systems.” Read more here… Just one news…

  • Read my article for FSTech magazine on how technology can help financial institutions to develop and manage effective risk management strategies. Published on 18th June 2012.

  • Read the PDF version of my article for FSTech magazine about Spanish bank BBVA's adoption of Google's cloud technology to improve staff collaboration. Published on 24th April 2012.