At a recent cyber-awareness event, experts from the National Cyber Crime Unit (part of GCHQ) said that the UK was seen as a low risk, high reward environment for cyber attackers, that the majority of crimes are now cyber dependent or had a cyber angle, and that there needs to be a seismic shift in…
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Castleton.Digital launched as interactive housing platform
Castleton Technology has just launched its Castleton.Digital interactive platform, which the company says offers housing providers an infinitely flexible and configurable platform that can link every other existing system together, integrating any tenant data currently stored in separate application silos into a single, simple-to-use solution. Tenant information can then be used to deliver smarter communications,…
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Hyperoptic hits housing milestone
Over 160,000 social housing properties now have access to Hyperoptic’s full-fibre broadband network. Hyperoptic said that it delivers the UK’s fastest broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps (1,000 megabits per second), over 21 times faster than the UK average. It supplies a number of housing providers, including A2Dominion, Hyde Group, Catalyst, Genesis Housing and Notting…
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Itica appoints new directors
Itica has recently appointed Martin Joy and John Doughty as new directors of the company. Joy has been a consultant for Itica for a number of years and previously held CIO and IT director positions in a number of blue-chip organisations. Doughty has over 20 years’ experience in the social housing sector and was previously…
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A single IT platform or best-of-breed?
Housing Technology interviewed Itica’s director, Neville Brown, on the merits of best-of-breed applications vs. enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in social housing. What’s the background to the single platform vs. best-of-breed debate? The housing sector is undergoing significant change at a time when the options for delivering systems are increasing, therefore it’s right that housing…
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NVT offers Viia cloud
NVT Group has announced that it has developed a new cloud-based service that is particularly relevant to smaller housing providers. The Viia cloud has been designed by NVT developers in Scotland as a reliable, secure, affordable and scalable platform, with the aim of enabling housing providers to migrate to a cloud based infrastructure without having…
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