Having worked with IT provider Lanway for the past four years, Eden Housing Association has extended the relationship to cover third-line and ad-hoc technical support. This part-outsourced service has resulted in Eden Housing saving 36 per cent of its annual IT support costs. Owen Kirkland, ICT systems and network coordinator, Eden Housing Association, said, “We…
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Sovereign’s tier-III data centre now open for business
Sovereign Data Connect (SDC), part of Sovereign Business Integration Group, officially launched its new Metro Point data centre within the M25 at the end of May 2012. Metro Point is the only datacentre outside London and within the M25 to be tier-III design accredited (see also Housing Technology, September 2011). Its services include co-location, managed…
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Amillan delivers £300k unified comms for Yorkshire Housing
Communications integrator Amillan has completed the implementation of a new unified communications and IP telephony system at Yorkshire Housing’s new office in Leeds. Amillan said that the initial part of the project, which covered cabling, local area networking, wireless networking and unified communications, had cost around £300,000. The implementation follows Yorkshire Housing’s decision to move…
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Together Housing goes virtual with Veeam
Having successfully moved to an almost 100 per cent virtual infrastructure, Together Housing Group has just completed the implementation of a virtual backup and replication system from Veeam. Backup times have now been halved, recovery times cut by 80 per cent and overall the new system is saving THG more than £70,000 per year in…
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Exponential-e networks Thames Valley Housing
Thames Valley Housing has escaped the restrictions of its legacy infrastructure with a new nine-site network from Exponential-e. The virtual private LAN service (VPLS) has removed TVH’s previous bandwidth restrictions and provides more support for large business applications. Exponential-e’s new network also covered the temporary relocation of TVH’s headquarters for a year during refurbishments. Gerard…
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Partick Housing heads for Castle’s cloud
Glasgow-based Partick Housing Association is moving its IT infrastructure to a private cloud-based service from Castle Computer Services. The new service is expected to be operational by August 2012, with the aim for achieving greater efficiency and performance alongside better business continuity. Arlene Casey, ICT manager, Partick Housing Association, said, “The move to a private…
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