Home Farm Trust has adopted Riverbed’s wide-area data services solution to support its residential users with learning difficulties. The charity, which provides residential care, supported living and other services to more than 1000 people with learning difficulties throughout the UK, strongly encourages the use of technology by its users. HFT particularly focuses on electronic diaries…
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Infrastructure
Counting the cost of server consolidation
While finance directors in the housing sector may not have a deep understanding of what an IT server actually does, they are more than likely to know how much it costs to buy, run and maintain a server, and by how much it will depreciate. What they probably don’t know is that nearly all servers…
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One-touch security for Incommunities
Incommunities has implemented flexible and secure remote working for its staff using a solution from AppGate Network Security. Incommunities, which manages 22,000 homes around Bradford, West Yorkshire, wanted to let remote workers and staff work when away from the office without compromising its infrastructure or data security. It also needed a single control point to…
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On the spot – ONI interview
Housing Technology interviewed Nick Boon, social housing team manager for the IT reseller ONI plc, about the changing role of IT in social housing and why ONI became involved in the sector. Tell us about your involvement in social housing We have always had one or two social housing customers since the mid-1990s, but it’s…
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Wireless flatlands for North Lincs
The flat landscape of Lincolnshire has provided an unexpected solution to North Lincolnshire Homes’ need to replace its wide-area network. As the owner of the three tallest building in the area, NLH realised that it was well placed to implement a wireless solution to replace its land cable system. Mike Eckersley, head of ICT, North…
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Solihull Community Housing plugs in wireless service
Solihull Community Housing has implemented a combined wireless and internet-over-powerline service for residents in a group of multi-storey blocks. SCH, which manages Solihull Metropolitan Council’s 11,000 homes, plans to deliver free or subsidised broadband internet access, using a combination of ‘leased lines in the sky’ wireless technology and internet connectivity via the residents’ existing electrical…
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