Midland Heart’s director of IT, Kathryn Downs, ORM’s founder and managing partner, Peter Gough, and Rackspace’s senior business development manager, Leon Blakely, explain how embracing new technologies could be a game changer for housing providers. Midland Heart’s Kathryn Downs said, “The biggest challenges in the social housing sector are an increasing pressure to build affordable…
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Moat goes digital with Rackspace & ORM
Moat has reported on its digital transformation programme, which started last year, with the help of infrastructure provider Rackspace and digital consultancy ORM. The process started by looking at Moat’s long-term vision and business objectives, in tandem with customer needs and behaviours, to design a solution that fulfilled those customer needs while delivering tangible business…
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Creating a customer-centric future
In partnership with Housing Technology, Rackspace recently held a dinner for senior housing IT executives. During the evening, the conversations were centred around a wholesale move towards digital, for both tenants and housing providers. There’s an understanding across the sector that organisations must engage with tenants in new and modern ways. This has led to…
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Pinnacle in the cloud with Rackspace
Pinnacle Group has moved its communications and IT infrastructure to Rackspace’s cloud-based services. Pinnacle began using Rackspace’s services in 2015, with a private cloud covering 80 per cent of its core business applications. By last year, Pinnacle needed to revise its cloud strategy in line with changing business drivers. The service provider firstly wanted to…
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The hidden side of GDPR
Few sectors in the UK hold as much personal data as the housing sector, from information on pay and benefits to details on religion and criminal history. The possession of such data means the sector is likely to be seen as a lucrative target by cyber criminals. The principal punitive costs of GDPR are well…
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Rackspace interview – IT infrastructure in housing
Housing Technology interviewed Rackspace’s chief technology officer, Lee James, during the recent Housing Technology 2018 conference. How are you finding Housing Technology 2018? It’s been brilliant. It’s our first year at the event, so thank you for having us. Lots of our customers had recommended it and there is a great buzz here! Apparently there…
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