Joseph Rowntree Foundation has moved its IT infrastructure to Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform with support from Phoenix. After Phoenix’s ‘Surveyor 360’ assessment to identify the right mixture of on-premise, hybrid and cloud services to replace JRF’s ageing infrastructure, Phoenix was chosen as JRF’s migration partner for its move to Microsoft Azure. Andy Veale, director for…
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Infrastructure
HTG orchestrates Clarion Housing migration
HTG has been supporting Clarion Housing’s massive ongoing migration of around 4,200 users to its new technology infrastructure. Following a merger between Circle Housing and Affinity Sutton, Clarion Housing was formed, resulting in the UK largest housing provider with around 125,000 homes. Clarion’s objective is now to build 50,000 homes over the next decade. Clarion…
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Women in housing IT
Housing Technology interviewed a group of women involved in housing IT from Adra, Civica, Community Housing, Northgate Public Services, PIMSS Data Systems, Prodo Digital and Rochdale Boroughwide Housing about their various roles in IT, any challenges they’ve faced as women in a traditionally fairly male-dominated sector and how more women can be encouraged to consider…
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Compliance at your core – Don’t sleepwalk into security
Investing in a digital future means that housing providers can streamline costs, improve operational efficiency and concentrate on creating improved tenant experiences. But there is often an elephant in the room when discussing digitisation – cyber security, which comes with any data-driven, digital approach. Stopping data security spills Last year saw the personal information of…
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iOpt expands senior team
iOpt has strengthened its senior team with the appointment of Stewart Carruth as its operations director and Jack Slater as the company’s head of technology. iOpt’s former summer intern Lewis Forster has also joined the company as a data scientist following his graduation from Glasgow University with a degree in maths and statistics. Stewart Carruth,…
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Thirteen’s Synapse360 storage & DR infrastructure
Thirteen Housing Group has completed the installation of a new storage and disaster recovery infrastructure from Synapse360, based on Dell EMC and Zerto software and hardware. Hassan Bahrani, senior network & infrastructure manager, Thirteen Group, said, “When our core storage infrastructure started to show its age, with diminishing performance and increasing maintenance costs, it was…
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