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: Web/Tech

  • 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.

  • PENSION DEFICITS are an inescapable problem for much of the FTSE 350. Figures from consultants Mercer show that employee pension scheme accounting deficits amounted to £104bn at the end of January – an increase of £8bn on the previous month, writes Graham Jarvis for Financial Director magazine.

  • While it is generally recognised that virtualisation is an important step in the move to cloud computing, as it enables efficient use of the underlying hardware and allows for true scalability, for virtualisation in order to be truly valuable it really needs to understand the workloads that run on it and offer clear visibility of…

  • “Welcome to the Ultimate Guide to Cloud Computing – your indispensable reference point to all things cloud” – featuring articles by cloud computing journalists such as Graham Jarvis.

  • GLOBAL INFORMATION technology (IT) investments in the insurance sector are being led by the Asia-Pacifi c region, according to research and analysis firm Ovum, which predicts that global IT spending will amount to $100bn by 2017.

  • The slow progress of technology in the (re)insurance sector is undisputed, with any changes coming extremely slowly – catastrophe modelling aside. For many firms, this approach to technology is causing problems. Many are still heavily reliant on software that is several decades old, with pricing worked out on basic spreadsheets.

  • 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.