A core goal for any housing organisation is to provide a safe and secure environment for its tenants; the deployment of CCTV is an essential tool in achieving this goal. However, meeting this need while also rolling out other services and ensuring that social inclusion objectives are met is likely to be financially unviable unless…
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Infrastructure
Driving efficiency through next-generation networks
Improving the efficiency of their internal processes and external services to tenants is a high priority for most housing organisations, particularly in the current economy and following pressure from regulators. This need for improved efficiency is a key impetus for the housing sector’s adoption of next-generation networks, which allow voice, data and video to be…
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Virtualisation key to Cosmopolitan’s DR plan
Cosmopolitan Housing Association and Keylogic have jointly developed a virtualised, thin-client disaster recovery (DR) system. Cosmopolitan has taken a pragmatic view of its DR requirements, choosing to focus on the rapid provision of its technology infrastructure in the event of a disaster, reasoning that the offices and sites which it already operates can accommodate staff…
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HCA thin clients live with Centralis
The newly-formed Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) is providing staff with access to core business applications via a new Citrix thin-client environment developed in partnership with IT consultancy Centralis. Bringing together the functions of English Partnerships, the Housing Corporation and some of the work of Communities and Local Government and the Academy for Sustainable Communities,…
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Major desktop refresh at Home Group
Home Group has just completed a major desktop refresh programme across its 250 sites with the help of European Electronique. Beginning in October 2008 and ending in February 2009, the aim of Home Group’s programme was to provide a consistent operating system and IT environment across the organisation to reduce maintenance and support. In common…
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Simplifying unified communications
The convergence of voice, video and data applications has been around for more than a decade. These days, terms such as VoIP (voice-over IP) and IP telephony are common and often over-used descriptions which do little to actually explain the benefits of an integrated, unified communications approach. The aim of this article, and those that…
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