Notting Hill Housing Trust has chosen Advanced 365 to deliver a private cloud managed IT service for four years with the option of extending it for a further two years. The contract is reported to be worth around £7.4 million, with the final phase of the outsourced IT service scheduled for completion by the end…
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Infrastructure
Sovereign launches datacentre service
With the launch of its new Data CentrePlus service, Sovereign Business Integration is expanding its services to provide co-location, hosting, managed IT and outsourced IT services. The new ‘Metro Point’ data centre is 14 miles north of central London and within the M25. Richard Barker, CEO, Sovereign Business Integration, said, “We have been offering data-centre…
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InCommunities’ IP-telephony with Intrinsic
Intrinsic Technology has completed a complete IP-based telephony upgrade at InCommunities including a new Nortel-based customer contact centre. Intrinsic upgraded InCommunities’ call server with Nortel Call Server software as the foundation for the new contact centre and for new technologies to improve communications. These changes to the call server allowed Incommunities to use Microsoft Exchange…
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Business-critical clouds
As shown by our frequent coverage of cloud computing and, to a lesser extent, virtualisation in recent issues of Housing Technology, they are clearly both hot topics for 2011 and beyond. Mark Johnson, ConvergeOne’s managing director, explains some of the benefits of moving to the cloud. In essence, cloud computing is simply a practical way…
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Innovation vs. the status quo
Looking at IT marketing today, you might think that everyone was deploying the latest and greatest technologies as soon as they hit the market. While the suggested benefits of many new technologies such as cloud computing and virtualisation are appealing, the reality for many companies is that the cost and time taken to ‘keep the…
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IT health check for Spitalfields Housing with Sovereign
Sovereign Business Integration has completed a review of Spitalfields Housing Association’s IT infrastructure, with Sovereign’s consultants initially conducting an ‘IT health check’ and assessing current risk factors relating to IT. The second phase of the project involved a review of Spitalfields’ current applications and identifying areas where improvements could be made. The final phase was…
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