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: WAN Optimisation

  • The data centre is the castle. You can pull up the drawbridge, fill up the moat, or pull down the portcullis. But at some point, you have to let data in and out, and this opens up the opportunity for ransomware attacks. No longer is it a matter of pride and peer recognition in the…

  • E-commerce demand often peaks around Christmas. Its traditions about giving to friends and family offer it the inertia to become perhaps the biggest retail event in the U.K. (and elsewhere). Retailers are constantly looking for new ways to increase their sales, and so it makes commercial sense to jump on Santa’s sleigh at a time…

  • When most people talk about big data they are usually talking about how it can be used to either predict weather patterns, or to analyse it to improve their marketing strategies. In reality, increasing volumes of data are being used by all of the world’s industries – including in the utilities sector. Quite often this…

  • Graham Jarvis explains how industrial organisations can protect their businesses well into the future.

  • Stuart Hardy writes in his article for South African IT magazine IT Web that MPLS is dead because users are accessing their business applications from some kind of cloud infrastructure, or from a SaaS platform. He predicts that software-defined WANs are going to change this scenario. In the article it is also claimed that if…

  • The severe floods that hit the north of England and parts of Scotland not so long ago devastated both homes and businesses. This leads to questions about whether the UK is sufficiently prepared to cope with such calamities. On 28th December 2015 the Guardian newspaper went so far as to say that the failure to…

  • Marketers have an increasing array of tools to spread their messages, and attract and retain customers – and video is one them. It is becoming particularly important to advertisers in today’s social media world. According to the World Advertising Research Council: “[Network] Latency is one of the greatest challenges facing the video advertising industry… on…

  • Data is the lifeblood of business. So a slow data transfer rate makes it harder to analyze, back-up, and restore data. Many organizations have to battle data latency on a daily basis, hampering their ability to deliver new digital products and services, be profitable, handle customer relationships, and retain operational efficiency. Data latency is a…

  • David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks, looks at how IoT and mobile cloud services will drive the potential for a connected battlefield…

  • Graham Jarvis explores how with AI organisations can do better and become smarter how they deploy and manage their IT to benefit from data acceleration.