Hyde Group has completed the replacement of its core IT infrastructure with the implementation of HP bladeservers and a storage area network (SAN) across its entire operations. The project was carried out by OCSL. Hyde, which has over 45,000 properties, has replaced its ageing SAN after the system’s slowness and lack of resilience began to…
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Infrastructure
Housing intranets and extranets – simple, fresh & clear
Few weeks go by without another new software solution aimed at solving an age-old problem faced by private and public sector organisations alike: namely, how to make policies and procedures easily available to all staff and how to keep them up to date. But against the backdrop of spending cuts and uncertainty over further financial…
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To share or not to share
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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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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