The Bath Group, whose members comprise housing providers with more than 10,000 properties, has reported the results of its survey covering the use of cloud-based services by its members. Almost half (47 per cent) of the survey’s respondents said that cloud technologies hadn’t reduced their costs and only 27 per cent thought that cloud services…
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Infrastructure
Tipping the scales towards visual surveillance
Weighing up costs versus benefits is an established commercial balancing act that helps to decide the uptake of new products, services and technology across all industries. It’s particularly relevant to CCTV because, until now, the balance for most organisations has seen the costs outweigh the benefits. There are a multitude of reasons for this. But,…
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Capita launches Cisco UC service
A new cloud-based unified communications service aimed at helping housing providers streamline collaboration has been launched by Capita. The Cisco-based Capita Unified Communications in the Cloud service combines the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) with Capita’s secure cloud and service management expertise to deliver collaborative technologies including instant messaging, voice, video, conferencing and presence from…
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Castle’s new infrastructure for Argyll Community Housing
Castle Computer Services has successfully completed the implementation of a new IT infrastructure for Argyll Community Housing Association. Castle supported the implementation of new servers as well as WAN and LAN in a virtualised environment, with enhanced business continuity arrangements. Vivienne Kerr, IT manager, Argyll Community Housing Association, said, “Castle worked closely with us to…
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I must go down to HP again, to the lonely PC on standby…
Barry Alford, head of ICT at Paragon Community Housing, explains how the housing provider carried out a live simulation of a full ‘DR day’ to test its business continuity strategy and what it learned from the experience. It was in one of our senior management team meetings (in December 2012) that I presented a DR…
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Leading the way with the internet of things
Readers may have noticed that Housing Technology has been covering the growth of the internet of things more frequently over the past few issues. This is because we believe that housing providers, possibly for the first time, are in a unique position to completely change the domestic technology landscape. At the moment the majority of…
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