Towards the end of 2010, Severnside Housing and Shropshire Housing Group created an initiative to partner on the delivery of IT services to both organisations, now known as unITe Solutions. The original intention of the initiative was to provide IT resource-sharing for skills transfer, procurement savings and value for money by having greater buying power….
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Infrastructure
SecurEnvoy’s tokenless two-factor authentication in housing
SecurEnvoy has developed a tokenless two-factor authentication method so that housing staff working remotely can easily and efficiently log into networks using devices such as smartphones. SecurEnvoy lets housing providers and local authorities use smartphones, laptops or tablets as authentication devices. One method is to send a dynamically-generated password to the employee’s mobile device via…
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Netwrix report on IT changes
A survey by Netwrix has found that almost 60 per cent of IT professionals have made undocumented changes to their IT systems that no one else knows about, and as many as 40 per cent of organisations don’t have any formal IT change management controls. Netwrix’s, ‘2014 State of IT Changes’ survey collected data from…
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Big Data – The emergence of the enterprise data hub
Jack Norris, CMO for MapR Technologies, examines how an enterprise data hub provides an alternative to expanding data silos and spurs innovation within larger organisations. Organisations are increasingly becoming data driven. For commercial enterprises, data is effectively a competitive weapon that underpins innovation and differentiation. Data-driven companies are rapidly gaining market share and big data…
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Grampian Housing goes virtual with Castle Computer Services & VMware
In order to replace an ageing server estate at Grampian Housing Association, Castle Computer Services has completed the implementation of 16 VMware virtual servers and its own Castle DataGuard backup and recovery service. Grampian Housing’s business growth and consequent demand for more complex IT services had resulted in a sprawling estate of around 10 servers,…
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The noise of big data
Sir – All of the hype and references to big data are great as it gives us something new to talk about, but is it all that it’s cracked up to be? Sure, there is more data. Social media platforms create loads of data but so what? I’ve looked at Twitter and tried to make…
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