Timico opened a new datacentre in January in Newark-on-Trent, with the £5 million hosting centre now offering infrastructure-, platform- and software-as-a-service based on cloud-based delivery. The Newark data centre is built to surpass Tier 3 status standards, guaranteeing 99.982 per cent availability for site infrastructure. With 144 racks for customer equipment and Timico’s own virtual…
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Infrastructure
Sovereign success at Thrive Homes and Red Kite
Sovereign Business Integration has won a five-year contract with Thrive Homes and completed the implementation of a new IT infrastructure at Red Kite Community Housing. Thrive Homes has extended its current one-year IT contract with Sovereign for a further five years, with Sovereign delivering and managing a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for greater IT security,…
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AB Internet delivers 100Mb wireless network across North Wales
AB Internet has completed the construction of a 100Mb symmetrical wireless network linking Cymdeithas Tai Clwyd Housing’s main offices in North Wales. Having beaten a leading global telecommunications company on both price and business value during the bid process, AB Internet began the project in September 2011 and the network was ‘lit up’ in January…
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Can you trust your business to the cloud?
Cloud computing has attracted a lot of interest over the past 18 months. Almost any function of IT can now be delivered from the cloud, as a service or on a ‘pay as you go’ basis. However, just because you can move systems to the cloud, does that mean that you should? Business continuity and…
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WM Housing outsources to MET and PCMS
WM Housing Group has just agreed a long-term outsourcing contract with MET and PCMS Group for an end-to-end service covering the proactive management of its IT infrastructure and applications. Andy Carroll, group head of IT, WM Housing, said, “With the complex systems, applications and infrastructure we operate, it is essential we maintain system availability and…
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Metronet wireless network at Trafford Housing
Metronet has taken over Trafford Housing Trust’s networking provision after the failure of the housing provider’s incumbent fibre providers to transfer connectivity to its new offices, despite months of planning, leaving it without any internet or telephony services. Bob Dodds, business support manager, Trafford Housing Trust, said, “I remembered seeing a story in which Metronet…
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