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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Atlanta Technology supports Gallions Housing
Gallions Housing Association in London has signed a contract with Atlanta Technology to provide third-line technical support alongside its internal IT team in addition to managing a number of bespoke strategic projects. Beginning at the end of 2011, the contract is expected to deliver immediate savings of £10,000 for Gallions Housing. Ali Jaffri, ICT manager,…
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Eden Housing cuts support by a third with Lanway
Having worked with IT provider Lanway for the past four years, Eden Housing Association has extended the relationship to cover third-line and ad-hoc technical support. This part-outsourced service has resulted in Eden Housing saving 36 per cent of its annual IT support costs. Owen Kirkland, ICT systems and network coordinator, Eden Housing Association, said, “We…
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Sovereign’s tier-III data centre now open for business
Sovereign Data Connect (SDC), part of Sovereign Business Integration Group, officially launched its new Metro Point data centre within the M25 at the end of May 2012. Metro Point is the only datacentre outside London and within the M25 to be tier-III design accredited (see also Housing Technology, September 2011). Its services include co-location, managed…
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Amillan delivers £300k unified comms for Yorkshire Housing
Communications integrator Amillan has completed the implementation of a new unified communications and IP telephony system at Yorkshire Housing’s new office in Leeds. Amillan said that the initial part of the project, which covered cabling, local area networking, wireless networking and unified communications, had cost around £300,000. The implementation follows Yorkshire Housing’s decision to move…
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