There’s no doubt that self-service portals have become an important tool for social housing providers by helping to manage and respond to tenants’ requirements. Whereas before, tenants would have had to face long call-times and queues to speak to their provider, they can now easily report any issues, update information or pay rent using a…
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DR blind-spot – Timico report
A survey from Timico has suggested that disaster recovery is a bit of a blind-spot for IT managers, with as many as one in eight of those surveyed having either never tested their DR plans or having no idea exactly when they were last tested. Over a third of the IT managers surveyed were only…
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Timico launches pay-as-you-go DR service
Timico has launched a new disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering a pay-as-you-go alternative to traditional disaster recovery plans involving duplicated IT equipment and difficulties in testing the efficacy of the plans. Timico’s new DRaaS solution enables regular testing with no disruption to the production environment and includes a fully-documented annual test as standard….
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An insider’s view of the 4G trials
4G is like lightning – it’s an eye opener and seriously enhances the mobile data experience. Trefor Davies, CTO of Timico, writes about O2’s exciting 4G trials in London and explores how the technology is going to change the mobile game, as well as offering a great solution for internet connectivity in social housing. Mobile…
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Timico launches £5m Midlands data centre
Timico opened a new datacentre in January in Newark-on-Trent, with the £5 million hosting centre now offering infrastructure-, platform- and software-as-a-service based on cloud-based delivery. The Newark data centre is built to surpass Tier 3 status standards, guaranteeing 99.982 per cent availability for site infrastructure. With 144 racks for customer equipment and Timico’s own virtual…
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Flagship revamps network with Timico
Flagship Housing has replaced its ‘point-to-point’ network with an industrial-strength multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) solution from Timico. Sandra Smith, IT systems development manager, Flagship Housing, said, “We wanted to move away from our existing network solution as the ‘point-to-point’ set up we had in place was delivering much less bandwidth than we needed and it…
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