Housing Technology interviewed experts from Castle Computer Services, JMC IT and Waterstons on their views of how housing providers’ IT infrastructures are likely to change over the next few years and also to predict the ‘next big thing’ for new technologies. Key IT infrastructure trends Enabling seamless mobile working and, as a closely-related area, the…
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Data governance at Notting Hill Housing Group with InforData
Notting Hill Housing Group has completed a major master data management project with InforData Consulting to consolidate myriad data sources from across its operations and impose data standards on data input and usage. The four-month programme was completed in March 2014. Before InforData Consulting was engaged, many of the business areas within NHHG had their…
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Shavlik Moves in with Severnside Housing
A new software patch management system from Shavlik and its partner Satisnet is helping Severnside Housing gain greater control of its IT estate and creating more time for the housing provider’s staff to resolve tenants’ queries. The system is expected to ensure that sensitive data is secure and all software is up-to-date to allow employees…
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Gateway appoints Waterstons as IT Partner
Gateway Housing Association has appointed Waterstons as its long term IT partner to work with its in-house IT team to provide first, second and third line support as well as IT governance. The contract began in February 2014 and will run for between three and five years. The delivery of the contract will be coordinated…
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Timico launches pay-as-you-go DR service
Timico has launched a new disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering a pay-as-you-go alternative to traditional disaster recovery plans involving duplicated IT equipment and difficulties in testing the efficacy of the plans. Timico’s new DRaaS solution enables regular testing with no disruption to the production environment and includes a fully-documented annual test as standard….
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Easynet recruits public-sector expert from Vodafone
Easynet Global Services has appointed Simon Holmyard as head of its public sector services, from Vodafone where he was head of public services network strategy. In his new role, Holmyard is expected to leverage the combined product portfolio and expertise of Easynet and MDNX, after MDNX bought Easynet in December 2013. He said, “Our public…
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