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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Infrastructure
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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4Net named as Avaya ‘service experts’
Housing IT specialist 4Net has been awarded ‘service expert’ status by Avaya based on its work around unified communications and robust contact centre strategies. Richard Pennington, managing director, 4Net, said, “We’re proud to be the first and only Avaya partner across the North of England to become accredited to ‘service expert’ level but, corporate chest-beating…
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Cutting costs through flexible data management
The National Housing Federation recently warned that proposed new accountancy standards could have a massive financial impact on England’s housing associations, reducing their book value by over £1 billion and costing £150 million in red tape. This has prompted fears that plans for thousands of new affordable homes will now be axed to cover the…
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Wakefield & District cuts IT support by 20% with ICM
said that the move to ICM would reduce its support costs by around 20 per cent, a saving around £6,000 per year. ICM will now support the entire hardware and software infrastructure used by WDH’s 1,400 employees. This includes desktop PCs in 21 offices and the laptops, PDAs and smartphones used by WDH’s mobile workers…
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ConvergeOne’s cloud seminar in Manchester
Housing Technology supported ConvergeOne’s seminar on cloud computing and virtualisation in Manchester at the end of July. ConvergeOne, a Cisco Premier Partner and sponsor of the Housing Technology 2012 conference, explained the challenges around cloud computing and discussed the advantages of optimising datacentres and moving to cloud-based services. Cisco, Comstor, NetApp and VMware also took…
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