Castle Computer Services and Partick Housing Association have been working together to move the housing providers ICT infrastructure to Castle’s private cloud service. Following the completion of the project, Castle and Partick were the only Scottish companies recognised in the UK Data Centre Solutions Awards and won the ‘Public Sector Project of the Year’ award….
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Infrastructure
The Windows XP time bomb
Early in 2010 Microsoft confirmed that it would cease support for Windows XP in April 2014. With other challenges such as the impact of the universal credit taking up precious time, resource and capex, how many housing providers have left themselves exposed to the risks of continuing to use of this soon-to-be unsupported operating system?…
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Barnet Group socialises with Clearvale
Further to the introductory feature on The Barnet Group in the July issue of Housing Technology, Broadvision has announced that the housing provider is using its Clearvale enterprise social networking software to boost operational efficiencies and improve internal communications. The cloud-based software enables employees to work socially on everyday business tasks, frequently eliminating duplication of…
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South Lakes live with new Intrinsic network & telephony
Earlier this year, Intrinsic Technology completed the installation of a completely new network infrastructure and telephony platform at South Lakes Housing. The new network is based on Cisco network and security technologies and Avaya for IP telephony. South Lakes recently added 3,000 homes to its portfolio following a stock transfer from South Lakeland District Council,…
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Sovereign extends IT contract with Tower Hamlets
Tower Hamlets Community Housing has signed a new seven-year contract with Sovereign Business Integration Group for an augmented IT service with additional flexibility and scope, extending its previous six-year contract with Sovereign. The new contract includes enhanced IT asset management, an upgrade to Tower Hamlets’ highly-resilient network, a dedicated service delivery manager from Sovereign to…
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JetNexus replaces Windows for load-balancing at Newport City Homes
In April 2013, Newport City Homes replaced its poorly-performing Windows Server NLB with an advanced load-balancing appliance from JetNexus. The original system had resulted in the housing provider’s home page taking up to 20 seconds to load. Having previously used an external hosting company, NCH decided to bring its web services in-house due to an…
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