Eastend Homes has awarded a new IT support contract to Sovereign Business Integration Group for the next five years. The contract is based on Sovereign’s managed IT services, and includes ‘as a service’ options for back-up, disaster recovery and firewall security. John Henderson, managing director, Eastend Homes, said, “We are well aware of the cyber-attacks…
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Infrastructure
Housing providers’ struggle with data, payments & mobility
According to research from Phoenix Software and VMware, UK housing providers are struggling with how they handle data, tenant payments and remote working. The software providers’ research found that 75 per cent of housing providers don’t think their organisation is effectively using the information it stores, with almost 50 per cent expecting to need to…
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Castle DR at Melville Housing
Melville Housing Association is using Castle Computer Services for its disaster recovery and business continuity operations following a recent office move. Andrew Noble, chief executive, Melville Housing Association, said, “Our infrastructure was at an age where it needed to be upgraded in advance of our move to new offices and Castle worked with us to…
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ForViva’s 60% infrastructure cost cuts with Quadris
ForViva’s investment in a Dell XC hyper-converged Nutanix platform supplied and supported by Quadris has been a key enabler of their significant recent growth and transformed application performance. Customer profile Established in June 2015, ForViva has brought together City West Housing Trust, Villages Housing Association and construction company ForWorks under a group structure. The group…
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Preview of the Internet of Things in Housing 2017
As many of you will know, Housing Technology is in the middle of producing its pioneering report and event at the BT Tower on the use of the internet of things in the social housing sector. An online survey on attitudes to IoT is at the heart of the report; the online survey was launched…
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SystemsUp helps GreenSquare reduce DR costs with Azure Site Recovery
GreenSquare Group has slashed its annual disaster recovery budget by almost two-thirds after moving to Microsoft Azure Site Recovery (ASR) with the help of Iomart cloud consultancy SystemsUp. The move to a public cloud has enabled GreenSquare to close its secondary data centre and improve its recovery processes. Rob Fletcher, group head of ICT, GreenSquare,…
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