25 East Manchester businesses have signed up to broadband services from ITS Technology Group on its CityServe network using Broadband Delivery UK funding, a government voucher scheme designed to get 95 per cent of the UK connected to superfast broadband by 2017. The CityServe network was originally set up for local social housing tenants. ITS…
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Infrastructure
DR blind-spot – Timico report
A survey from Timico has suggested that disaster recovery is a bit of a blind-spot for IT managers, with as many as one in eight of those surveyed having either never tested their DR plans or having no idea exactly when they were last tested. Over a third of the IT managers surveyed were only…
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XLPrint Software enters the housing sector
XLPrint Software has announced its intention to have a dedicated focus on the UK social housing sector based around its mail consolidation service, PARIS Mail. XLPrint reported that they anticipated annual mailing cost savings of around 20 per cent. The company said that the service is delivered on a shared reward basis, making it self-funding…
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Pinacl wins £480,000 MPLS deal with WM Housing
WM Housing Group has appointed Pinacl Solutions to implement and manage a new MPLS network in a three-year deal worth £480,000. The new network is being created in order to deal with the effects of new housing associations joining the group’s federal structure, each with their own legacy systems; at present, 900 users now access…
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Peaks & Plains and Staffordshire Housing share back-up services with Keylogic
Neighbouring housing providers, Peaks & Plains Housing Trust in Macclesfield and Staffordshire Housing Group in Stoke-on-Trent, have joined forces to share back-up services with help from Keylogic. Instead of paying for separate back-up services from suppliers that were charging over £25,000 per year, the two housing providers decided to share resources, services and recovery space…
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First Choice Homes’ hosted helpdesk from House-on-the-Hill
First Choice Homes Oldham’s ICT service delivery manager, David Gorman, describes the process of choosing and implementing House-on-the-Hill’s hosted helpdesk software. SupportDesk was recommended to me by a colleague who had seen it demonstrated at a conference. We were searching for a new service desk software tool that had the ability to be either hosted…
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