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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Infrastructure
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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Some IP to watch over you
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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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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