Lewisham Homes has completed a project to install cloud, virtualisation and VDI technologies from VMware and Citrix and thin-clients from IGEL throughout its head office as part of a ‘ground up’ investment in class-leading enterprise IT. Manni Etsetowaghan, head of IT, Lewisham Homes, said, “New IT infrastructure was needed as we consolidated office space to…
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General News
Alysium Consulting gains Sovereign staff
Alysium Consulting, set up by Ian Lever, Lesley Buckels and Phil Smith two years ago, has recently made two new senior appointments with the addition of Jacqueline Stoggall and Tim Cowland from Sovereign Business Integration Group’s housing division. Ian Lever, managing director, Alysium Consulting, said, “We are pleased to have Jacqui and Tim on board….
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Sunrise ITSM at Castleton Technology
Castleton Technology has announced that it is using Sunrise Software’s IT service management (ITSM) solution to enhance the IT support and managed services provided to its customers. Replacing four different helpdesk systems, Sunrise is now also used as the engineering service desk, scheduling time, workload, stock levels and project deliveries. Paul Rogers, professional services director,…
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GI4Housing meeting in October
The GIS-focused GI4Housing forum has confirmed that its next meeting will be at The Life Centre in Manchester, courtesy of Oxford Data Consultancy, on 19 October from 10am. GI4Housing said that anybody in the housing sector who is already using geographic information in their business or who are thinking of implementing GIS is welcome to…
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Making better use of data – It starts with design
As new technology keeps flooding into the housing sector and new sources of data emerge, imaginative ways to put them to good use are surfacing on a daily basis. You only have to read the pages of Housing Technology to see what’s possible. And it’s also clear that the way in which housing providers are…
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Does your privacy policy measure up?
Civica’s executive director for housing and asset management, Jeff Hewitt, looks at the results of a recent survey into privacy policies for housing providers ahead of the 2018 GDPR legislation. When it comes to the collection and storage of extremely sensitive data, housing providers often hold vast amounts of records about both their tenants and…
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