It seems that since time immemorial, the IT world has had its standard for measuring success. The much coveted ‘five nines’; the traditional promise of 99.999 per cent uptime for the business, and it is universally accepted that’s all you need to know or care about for business continuity. It covers the basics of ‘likelihood’…
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043 - January 2015
Phoenix backs up Castle Vale
Castle Vale Community Housing Association has replaced its tape-based backup and recovery infrastructure with a cloud-based, managed service from Phoenix. The new service is faster and more reliable than its previous infrastructure and offers ‘pay as you grow’ scalability. Mohammed Sarfraz, IT & network administrator, Castle Vale Community Housing Association, said, “We need to ensure…
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Don’t take mobile coverage for granted
Mobile coverage is something most of us often take for granted. However, getting a mobile signal, let alone data coverage, in the middle of the countryside or in areas without much previous residential infrastructure can be difficult. Many new developments are being built on the outskirts of towns in areas without any history of residential…
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IT suppliers support Cottsway Housing to help save local food bank
Cottsway Housing Association in Oxfordshire has been overwhelmed by the support from some of its IT contractors and suppliers after the volunteers running the Oxfordshire West Food Bank asked the housing provider for help. Due to limited space and access, as well as a lack of heating and facilities for the volunteers, the food bank…
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The boardroom paper chase
The quarterly board meeting may be one of the fundamental aspects of traditional corporate structures. But it has remained completely unchanged, still relying in the majority of cases on hundreds of pages of paper presented and collated up to several weeks before the meeting. But with budgetary pressures and the need for real-time problem solving,…
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DXW wins Accountability Hack with ‘Right to Buy-Bye’
DXW, a provider of digital services to the housing sector, recently spent 48 hours at the National Audit Office in London for Parliament’s ‘Accountability Hack 2014’ in order to demonstrate what can be achieved over one weekend, powered by nothing more than skill, talent and caffeine, and going on to win the ONS Challenge and…
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