Shared services have been growing in popularity over the last few years as housing providers realise that shared services allows them to either gain access to products and services that they couldn’t otherwise afford on their own or use their IT budgets more prudently by leveraging the costs savings and economies of scale inherent in…
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Infrastructure
The Wisdom of Clouds
Stefan Haase from Intechnology explains how a virtual hosting service provides access to cloud-based virtual servers and can transform IT provision within the housing sector. With virtualisation now firmly established on the IT agenda, the focus is very much on how fast and how far the enterprise will push the technology. Conversely, it’s important to…
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First Wessex goes virtual with Blue Chip
IT infrastructure specialist Blue Chip has completed the virtualisation of First Wessex Group’s IT infrastructure, following the housing provider’s desire to centralise services across the group as well as replace ageing server hardware. The cost of the project was reported to be £130,000. The first phase of the project involved the installation of four VMware…
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BT managed services at South Tyneside Homes
South Tyneside Homes has signed a five-year contract with BT South Tyneside, itself a partnership between BT and South Tyneside Council, for a new IT infrastructure for desktops, customer service, procurement, finance and HR, all to be delivered as a managed service. Isobel Riley, chief executive, South Tyneside Homes, said, “Our investment in these fully-managed…
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Rays of sunshine at Halton Housing Trust
Halton Housing Trust has revolutionised the work-life balance of its staff with the introduction of virtual desktop technology that allows them to work wherever they have access to the internet. Halton Housing’s new infrastructure is based on Sun Ray zero-client devices which have been installed on every desk in the organisation and integrate with its…
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Ahead in the Cloud
Organisations across both public and private sectors are increasingly leveraging cloud-based services as an alternative IT delivery model, attracted by their rich potential for technical, financial and operational advantage. The enterprise-class, on-demand, utility-based platform that characterises today’s cloud-based or managed services offering is indeed a compelling proposition; it is setting new standards of affordability, accessibility,…
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