Housing Technology asked Gary Haldane, the IT manager at Kingdom Housing Association, to share his experience of thin-client computing over the past 10 years. Kingdom Housing Association first implemented thin-client technology in 1999, using Citrix Presentation server and we have continued to use the same technology for a decade. We have 180 users, 100 of…
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Infrastructure
High-speed network for 150 Midland Heart sites
Midland Heart is overhauling its information network across 150 sites in the West Midlands following a deal with NTL Telewest Business. The new NTL network is already live at Midland Heart’s headquarters and three satellite offices, with the remaining four offices and housing sites expected to be live by July 2009. The housing and regeneration…
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Virtual desktops for Solihull MBC
Solihull Community Housing Association has installed a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) system to enable its duty managers to work from any site in the borough. Working with independent consultancy Centralis and in collaboration with Solihull MBC, Citrix XenDesktop has been installed, allowing registered users to access their virtualised desktop from any location, giving them greater…
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Notting Hill Housing goes green with Plan-Net
Notting Hill Housing Group has implemented a virtual desktop system to reduce costs and save space, as well as reducing its carbon footprint. Installed and supported by Plan-Net, the new system is based on VMware VDI which delivers a virtual desktop which behaves like a normal ‘fat’ PC. Wyse thin-client terminals and Leostream, a desktop…
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Irvine goes virtual with CNT
Irvine Housing Association has consolidated its technology infrastructure onto a virtual VMware platform. Central Networks and Technologies, which carried out the project, replaced Irvine’s 14 servers with four ESX servers, dramatically reducing server hardware expenses as well as reducing power, cooling and datacentre infrastructure costs. CNT delivered Irvine’s new system and migrated all of the…
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East Thames re-houses with Redstone
East Thames Group has moved its ICT systems to Redstone’s OneNet intelligent building infrastructure. When East Thames decided to move 800 employees from two separate offices into a new building to gain space, it used the move to resolve problems it had with its existing IT and telephony infrastructure by introducing a unified communications system…
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