Do you know the total cost of running your IT network, including the unnecessary money spent on idle energy consumption? With environmental issues becoming part of many business decisions, and as electricity costs rise, the ability to monitor the sources of power consumption is becoming increasingly important. By identifying the sources of power consumption, particularly…
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Infrastructure
Rays of sunshine for Merlin
Merlin Housing Society in South Gloucestershire has moved from PCs to Sun Ray virtual PCs as part of a complete renewal of its IT infrastructure. South Gloucestershire Council transferred nearly 8000 homes to Merlin in February 2007 and initially provided Merlin with ICT services using traditional PCs, file/print servers and old-fashioned Centrex telephony. Anyone who…
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Sovereign appoints SHG executive
Previously with Southern Housing Group, Peter Knight has joined Sovereign Business Integration as a senior consultant in the company’s housing and public sector team. Knight has almost 20 years’ experience in the social housing sector, including developing workflows for Orchard’s arcHouse Plus system and managing Prince2- and ITIL-based projects. At Sovereign, Knight will be responsible…
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Storage review at Affinity Sutton
With the help of Eurodata Systems, Affinity Sutton has carried out a comprehensive review of its server and storage requirements in order to consolidate its technology infrastructure following its formation in 2006 from the merger of Affinity Homes and William Sutton. Affinity Sutton, which manages 51,000 homes nationwide, engaged Eurodata to carry out a review…
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Network Housing prepares for disaster
Network Housing Group, which manages 17,000 properties in London and Hertfordshire, has overhauled its entire disaster recovery and data back-up systems using storage area network (SAN) technology from Atlanta Technology. NHG had three storage areas to address. The first was the tape back-up system; the daily back-up and verification cycle was taking almost 24 hours,…
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Prevention beats the cure
Most major IT system failures are preventable – proactive monitoring can detect the early warnings, allowing remedial action to be taken before disaster strikes. IT support companies have traditionally set different service-level expectations for different customers, usually under a break-fix model, selling time in advance of the customer’s requirements. Meanwhile, the customer continues to carry…
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