With 70-80 per cent of information security breaches now originating from companies’ internal staff, outsourcing specialist MET and Dtex Systems have teamed up to deliver a new SystemSkan-based service to housing providers. SystemSkan automatically screens all user activity on a company’s network and can be configured to prevent and alert on inappropriate activities in real…
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Infrastructure
Trent & Dove spends £140k on unified comms from IPFX
Trent & Dove Housing is about start the implementation of its new IPFX Director telephony and collaboration infrastructure. The suite includes unified communications, directory services, call accounting, call centre, conferencing, centralised voicemail and advanced ‘presence’ capabilities. IPFX reported that the value of the contract was around £140,000. IPFX Director will be implemented by Amillan, one…
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Datacentre services – Buy cheap, buy twice
Keeping the large volumes of confidential data held about their tenants and communities safe creates a huge headache for most housing providers. There are two major factors affecting the secure storage and management of housing providers’ data – the sheer amount of it and the pressure on costs. According to a recent article in The…
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WPH selects Datango for enterprise application adoption
Wirral Partnership Homes is using software from Datango to accelerate end-user adoption of its enterprise applications, in particular its Northgate housing management system. WPH is planning to upgrade its Northgate Housing application to a new web-based front end and with limited internal resources available to build documentation, education and support materials, Datango will automate the…
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Next-generation workspaces – virtual desktops & rich media services
There are many virtualisation terms today, such as VDI (virtualised desktop infrastructure), hosted virtual desktop (Gartner) and centralised virtualised desktop (IDC) – these solutions have been available for a while, although with some setbacks and nuances. Today, VDI is a very competitive and functional infrastructure and one that should be considered in all IT strategies….
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£330k desktop transformation at Yorkshire Housing with Assist
Yorkshire Housing is expected to announce the completion of its desktop transformation project in November 2011 as part of its relocation of 27 existing offices to a single main office in Leeds. Assist is managing the installation of a new thin-client platform and rolling out a XenDesktop migration for 1000 seats in preparation for the…
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