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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Infrastructure
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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Riverbed ripples at HFT
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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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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