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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Infrastructure
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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Genesis Housing’s £1.7m deal with Insite Energy
Insite Energy has been chosen by Genesis Housing to manage metering, credit billing and prepayments for its 4,500 heat network-connected properties across London and the South East of England. The four-year contract is reported to be worth £1.7 million. Genesis Housing’s de-centralised energy and heat-metering framework contract will see around 75 per cent of its…
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Secured by design
In this article, Jon Cole, chief operating officer of Secured by Design, the national police crime prevention initiative, looks at how visitor and access control systems can keep tenants safe in blocks of flats while providing landlords and the police with an unprecedented opportunity to investigate system misuse. Having a way of controlling who can…
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Partick Housing gets ‘desktop as a service’ from Castleton
Partick Housing Association has appointed Castleton Managed Services to deliver a cloud-based, fully-hosted ‘desktop as a service’, built on a Citrix XenApp architecture hosted in one of Castleton’s ‘tier III+’ UK datacentres. The project began in June 2017 and the new service is scheduled to go live later this year. Elaine Lewty, ICT business services…
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Penetration testing in housing
Housing Technology interviewed Toby Reynolds, a security consultant and penetration tester for Insomnia Security, about what housing providers should be considering in the context of cyber-security and data protection. What are the cyber-security and data protection aspects specific to social housing? There are lots of similarities with social housing and other companies. This can be…
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