What’s been dubbed the ‘bring your own device’ trend is just the latest example of the influence of the emerging ‘smart generation’, people who will happily switch between PC, tablet and smartphone and see no need for a desk phone or, indeed in some cases, a desk. In many companies, these employees are driving real…
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Infrastructure
Central & Cecil’s virtual storage with Scale Computing
Central & Cecil has centralised its storage and moved to a virtualised technology infrastructure from Scale Computing to support future growth and rationalise a fragmented IT environment resulting from frequent mergers. The housing provider started work in October 2010 with consultants IP Protocol, with the goals of reducing operating costs and ensuring better management of…
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Support desk in the cloud from House-on-the-Hill
House-on-the-Hill has announced that its suite of service management and support desk products is now available as cloud computing-based services as well as via the traditional onsite model. Software-as-a-service versions of the company’s existing products cover facilities management helpdesk, Freedom of Information management, managed service providers, HR helpdesk and complaints management. Customers can ‘mix and…
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Circle cuts £130k with Claranet
Circle has completed the migration of its network infrastructure to a hosted service at Claranet’s datacentre, with 12 offices and over 200 Circle sites now connected by an MPLS network. With the project starting in 2010 and having taken around 18 months to complete, the new Claranet hosted infrastructure is expected to save Circle around…
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Cloud computing & software as a service
Early in the 20th century, manufacturers began to rely on electricity as a means of powering their machinery. They therefore needed to build and maintain power plants filled with complex machinery. The need to run 24 hours a day meant expensive three-shift rotas for staff and complex maintenance routines to minimise downtime and disruption. Whenever…
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Virtual desktop infrastructures – can IT break down organisational barriers?
To say that ‘more for less’ has become something of a buzzword over the last few years would be a huge understatement, with public and private sector organisations under pressure to deliver better customer satisfaction for tenants while also keeping costs down. Housing providers’ IT teams have become fixated on this issue, aiming to bring…
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