Guinness Partnership is integrating five technology infrastructures onto a common platform with support from ANS Group. Guinness Partnership, which manages over 55,000 properties, comprises the Guinness Trust, Guinness Northern Counties, Guinness Hermitage, Guinness Midsummer and Gloucestershire Housing Association. As each housing organisation had previously operated independently, they each had their own infrastructure, such as email…
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Infrastructure
Federation data safe as houses with FutureSoft
The National Housing Federation has implemented FutureSoft’s PointGuard software to control staff access to applications, devices and data. The Federation, which has 150 staff in offices across England and represents 1200 housing organisations, needed to update its data security and handling capabilities to deal with the threat posed by staff downloading non-business files or unwittingly…
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Family Mosaic outsources network & servers to Telstra
Family Mosaic has signed a new agreement with Telstra to deliver IT service efficiencies across its organisation. As part of the agreement, Telstra is providing high-speed MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) network connectivity and secure hosting facilities for the Family Mosaic server farms which serve seven major sites and more than 80 smaller Family Mosaic offices….
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VIPRE uncoils Surrey Community
Surrey Community Development Trust (SCDT) has switched from Symantec to Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE system for its anti-virus protection. SCDT, a charity which provides housing and support facilities for vulnerable people in Surrey and Berkshire, was frustrated that its existing anti-virus software from Symantec (Endpoint Protection) was using so much system resource during scans that it…
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Isos Housing flooded with help from Tagish
When the River Wansbeck burst its banks during the Morpeth floods last year, it affected many Castle Morpeth Housing residents. Unfortunately, Castle Morpeth Housing’s corporate head office at Isos Housing Group in Newcastle upon Tyne was also severely flooded; most of the IT equipment was under half a metre of water rendering, among other things,…
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Local authorities prepared for disaster
According to Adam Continuity, local authorities in the UK are setting exemplary standards of practice when it comes to data management and backup. Nearly all of local authorities surveyed had rehearsed their IT disaster recovery procedures in the past two years, three-quarters had reviewed their disaster recovery support within the last year and over 80…
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