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

  • Unified comms is the promise of bringing different forms of communications together – is it a good fit for the cloud? Unified communications is about bringing your mobile and fixed line telephony, email, instant messaging, collaboration and other communications together in such a way that you can manage them as one. It’s a great option…

  • Clouds are nothing without workloads but how can a company optimise its deployment? Without workloads the cloud is just idle. This perhaps seems very obvious to all of us because wherever data is being processed workload is created by the servers used to manage and handle it. David Chalmers, Technology Director for Hewlett Packard’s Enterprise…

  • How many cloud providers will there be in future? One? Ten? 100? How does this debate help our decisions today? The outstanding opinion about whether there will be an oligopoly or monopoly of cloud providers in the future is a resounding, “No”. However, life is not so simple and it emerges that the definition of…

  • Choosing different cloud providers for different purposes could offer many advantages – would a single aggregator help the process? Cloud computing can often involve a multitude of suppliers providing hardware, software and services. The complexity of managing so many different supplier relationships begs the question about whether there is a need for a single aggregator…

  • Article publish today by Graham Jarvis, exploring the green case for IT outsourcing. The article, “The Green Case for IT Outsourcing” appears in the Sunday Telegraph.

  • We discover the challenges and benefits of incorporating the modern mainframe into today’s IT infrastructure By Graham Jarvis | Published: 10:00 GMT, 25 August 10 | CIO UK

  • [Anne] Moises’ thinking was inspired by her predecessor, Maureen McGinn, who worked at what was known as the Scottish Office before devolution. “She became a role model for me, demonstrating that you could and should bring emotional intelligence as well as technical know-how into the provision and support of IT,” Moises recalls. “You can have…

  • – Neon Systems is suing IBM, claiming Big Blue’s anticompetitive behaviour violated trademark laws and cost Neon business.

  • “NEON Enterprise Software launched its zPrime software: zPrime works by automatically identifying IMS, DB2, CICS, TSO/ISPF, and batch workloads that can be processed on specialty processors, reducing processing costs and improving throughput for the primary CPU, the company claims. “

  • Written By: Martin BanksPublished: 19 November, 2009 by Bloor Research. Saving anything on operational expenses is one of the constant concerns of CIOs and IT managers, particularly when the level of business is under the cosh from a tough economic environment. The mainframe sector is no different in this respect, so the arrival of zPrime from…