Trent & Dove Housing Association has installed EMC Vspex in order to virtualise 95 per cent of its entire IT infrastructure, and saving 20 per cent from its electricity bills in the process. It took just six weeks for EMC to deploy 20 servers, with the final result achieving 95 per cent of its entire…
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Infrastructure
Housing Solutions converges telco and DI contracts through Social Telecoms
Housing Solutions has consolidated its fixed line telephony, mobile phone and lone-worker protection under a single contract with Social Telecoms, replacing a number of different suppliers, each with varying contract end-dates, while also generating cost savings. Using an EU-compliant tendering process, Housing Solutions began by negotiating the terms of its fixed-line telecommunications contract by inviting…
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Creating value out of vision with Cloudview
Housing providers have a difficult juggling act when it comes to their responsibilities. Their first priority must always be to their tenants and residents. That means ensuring property, whether it’s an individual’s home or a communal area, is safe, secure and well maintained. But housing providers also have a duty to ensure they deliver on…
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Angus Housing chooses Castle’s cloud
Angus Housing Association is moving to the cloud after choosing Castle Computer Services to deliver a hosted solution as part of an IT infrastructure upgrade, with all of Angus Housing’s infrastructure, applications and services hosted in a tier 3+ certified data centre. Arlene Grant, finance and corporate services manager, Angus Housing Association, said, “The move…
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Intercity Technology rings the changes for South Liverpool Homes
South Liverpool Homes is now using Intercity Technology for its mobile phone provision, based on a fixed-cost package. Before its relationship with Intercity Technology, South Liverpool Homes had been very disappointed with its previous two mobile phone providers. The issues included poor service delivery, the re-charging of staff calls and inefficient call monitoring. With their…
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SITS virtualisation boosts Bernicia
Bernicia Group has completed an overhaul of its IT infrastructure, adopting a virtualised environment and reducing its disaster recovery (DR) period from days to less than 30 minutes. Work conducted by virtualisation specialist SITS Group has enabled the housing provider to cut costs, speed up its processes and bolster security. The firm worked with SITS…
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