Housing Technology interviewed experts from Castle Computer Services, JMC IT and Waterstons on their views of how housing providers’ IT infrastructures are likely to change over the next few years and also to predict the ‘next big thing’ for new technologies. Key IT infrastructure trends Enabling seamless mobile working and, as a closely-related area, the…
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Castle Computer Services
Grampian Housing goes virtual with Castle Computer Services & VMware
In order to replace an ageing server estate at Grampian Housing Association, Castle Computer Services has completed the implementation of 16 VMware virtual servers and its own Castle DataGuard backup and recovery service. Grampian Housing’s business growth and consequent demand for more complex IT services had resulted in a sprawling estate of around 10 servers,…
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Award-winning cloud from Castle Computer Services & Partick Housing
Castle Computer Services and Partick Housing Association have been working together to move the housing providers ICT infrastructure to Castle’s private cloud service. Following the completion of the project, Castle and Partick were the only Scottish companies recognised in the UK Data Centre Solutions Awards and won the ‘Public Sector Project of the Year’ award….
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Castle launches ‘bedroom tax’ software
Castle Computer Services has developed a simple QlikView-based system that quickly identifies tenants affected by the Housing Reform Act. The Castle system integrates easily with existing housing management systems and any manually collated data to cross-reference tenant details against the Welfare Reform Act criteria to establish which households will receive reduced benefits. It also calculates…
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Partick Housing heads for Castle’s cloud
Glasgow-based Partick Housing Association is moving its IT infrastructure to a private cloud-based service from Castle Computer Services. The new service is expected to be operational by August 2012, with the aim for achieving greater efficiency and performance alongside better business continuity. Arlene Casey, ICT manager, Partick Housing Association, said, “The move to a private…
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Cairn Housing to sell virtual hosting services
Having virtualised its infrastructure back in 2007, Cairn Housing is now extending its IT services by generating income from hosting other housing providers’ data on its VMware servers. In conjunction with Castle Computer Services, Cairn is already hosting data for Abbeyfield Housing Association and expects to add several more housing providers during 2011. Rory Gaffney,…
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