Glasgow-based Partick Housing Association is moving its IT infrastructure to a private cloud-based service from Castle Computer Services. The new service is expected to be operational by August 2012, with the aim for achieving greater efficiency and performance alongside better business continuity. Arlene Casey, ICT manager, Partick Housing Association, said, “The move to a private…
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Infrastructure
An insider’s view of the 4G trials
4G is like lightning – it’s an eye opener and seriously enhances the mobile data experience. Trefor Davies, CTO of Timico, writes about O2’s exciting 4G trials in London and explores how the technology is going to change the mobile game, as well as offering a great solution for internet connectivity in social housing. Mobile…
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Making IT simple
The announcement in the 2012 Budget that, “further measures to deregulate and simplify the planning system [will be] introduced” was swiftly followed by the publication of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) which reduced more than 1,000 pages of planning guidance to around 50 pages. The changes, which have been welcomed by the National Housing…
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JMC completes £2m contract to merge Arena and Harvest
JMC IT has just completed a two-phase, 18-month project for the merger of Manchester’s Harvest Housing Group and Liverpool’s Arena Housing Group to form Your Housing Group. The new group will now own and manage around 32,000 properties in the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands. Salford-based JMC originally won the initial £600,000 tender against…
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Sovereign’s £120,000 virtual infrastructure
Blue Chip has reported that it completed the implementation last year of a VMware-based virtual infrastructure at Sovereign Housing Association, with the project costing around £120,000 and taking five weeks to complete. The new virtual infrastructure replaced Sovereign’s previous system which lacked the scalability, flexibility and resilience to cope with the demands of its 1,000-strong…
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Delivering shared services in practice
At the recent Housing Technology conference in Birmingham, Sovereign Business Integration Group hosted an interactive seminar to discuss the shared services experiences of a number of companies. This article highlights some of the key points raised in the panel discussion which was hosted by James Threapleton, Sovereign’s director of housing. While many organisations have explored…
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