Tower Hamlets Community Housing said that it has extended its contract with Sovereign Business Integration Group for outsourced ICT for another year. Sovereign’s original contract covered all of Tower Hamlet’s IT requirements, including support for its core housing systems as well as its technical IT infrastructure. Since outsourcing its IT to Sovereign, Tower Hamlets has…
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Infrastructure
SharePoint 2010 at Golden Gates with ISG Technology
Continuing last issue’s story about Golden Gates Housing and ISG Technology (July 2012, page 22), the housing provider has now signed a contract for Microsoft SharePoint 2012 with the technology provider. The contract is worth in the region of £100,000. ISG’s implementation of SharePoint will provide Golden Gates with a unified platform for internal communications…
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North Lincolnshire launches commercial broadband
North Lincolnshire Homes has expanded its innovative broadband service (see Housing Technology, March 2012) into a successful commercial proposition with the launch of the Diamond-Net service for its own tenants, private customers and local businesses. Housing Technology interviewed Mike Eckersley, head of ICT at North Lincolnshire Homes and one of founders of the new initiative….
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Can managed print services help with budget cuts?
The effects of the Government’s £4 billion budget cuts for social housing are far from over. Most of you will have seen staff redundancies, fewer affordable homes delivered and more people added to England’s 4.5 million housing waiting list. Budgets are under greater scrutiny as housing providers scramble to help families into homes, so it…
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Golden Gates spends £200k with ISG for networking & support
ISG Technology has won networking and support contracts from Golden Gates Housing Trust worth a total of around £210,000 as part of the housing provider’s complete network upgrade. The contracts comprise a three-year managed firewall contract last year for £20,000, a similar length contract worth £90,000 for HP LAN switches with support and monitoring, and…
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Southern Housing boosts its network with HSO
Southern Housing Group has switched its network to managed service provider HSO in order to cope with growing data volumes, support voice calls over the network and deliver high-definition video conferencing. SHG was obliged to send out its complex project specifications to tender to comply with procurement requirements, bringing in a third-party IT consultant to…
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