New Charter Housing Trust Group has transformed its technology infrastructure by moving from numerous physical servers to just a few virtual servers. New Charter’s decision to virtualise its infrastructure was prompted by the need to upgrade its ageing servers, many of of which dated from 2000 following a stock transfer from Tameside Council in Manchester….
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Infrastructure
But is it web-enabled?
I would like to introduce this article by describing a common situation when we are demonstrating our software to housing associations. Imagine a group of people animatedly discussing how the software might help them, when one person, usually a senior director, asks in a knowledgeable tone, “ah, but is it web-enabled?”. When pressed to explain…
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Peak service for Cairn
Cairn Housing Association has restructured its network to provide connectivity to all of its 35 remote sites in Scotland, achieving 99.999 per cent uptime while re-using much of its existing hardware. Cairn manages 2800 properties in Scotland, with offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Coatbridge and Thurso. For the past three or four years, Cairn has had…
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Some data are more equal than others
The answer is multi-tiered data management – so what is the question? There are many questions to which MDM is the answer. One is ‘How do you reduce the cost of securing the data and information that you rely on for your daily operations?’ Another… ‘Do you set policies to manage the data on your…
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Walsall Housing Group tests loopholes in security
As organisations’ infrastructures attempt to deal with the growing volume and complexity of internal and external security threats, Walsall Housing Group is committed to regular penetration testing of its IT systems to highlight potential weaknesses before they are exploited. Phil Pettifer, network and security manager, WHG, said, “Penetration testing gives us peace of mind. It’s…
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New Charter monitors mobile device threat
New Charter Housing Trust Group has been one of the first organisations in the industry to recognise the potential security threat posed by the ubiquity of portable and removable media devices such as MP3 players, PDAs, USB drives, digital cameras and the latest generation of mobile phones. These devices can aid productivity and support flexible…
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