Sir – While some see the bedroom tax as a controversial tussle between the political parties, the real life ramifications are proving to be a huge challenge for both the housing providers’ management teams and the tenants affected by the new regulations. Among our customers, comprising many of the UK’s leading housing providers, we have…
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036 - November 2013
Making room for the agile business
As growing numbers of organisations begin to make positive plans for the future, is the office really the best place for the data centre, asks Joanna Sedley-Burke, managing director of Sovereign Data Connect. Organisations cannot afford any constraints on expansion (e.g. mergers) and one of the key areas of agility must be within IT. Why…
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Easynet offers next-generation fibre for housing
Easynet Global Services has launched the next generation of its EtherStream V fibre access service, with 320Mbps download and 80Mbps upload speeds. In addition, because Easynet is squeezing more bandwidth from the copper services already in place, there is no need for the disruption or costs that can come from major fibre installations. Easynet said…
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Bolton at Home live with Liberata private cloud
Liberata has implemented a private cloud solution as part of a four-year managed services contract covering IT and telephony with Bolton at Home Housing Association. The Liberata solution has enabled Bolton at Home to take a more flexible approach to office space following the migration of services to Liberata’s secure virtual platform. The project included…
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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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The Windows XP time bomb
Early in 2010 Microsoft confirmed that it would cease support for Windows XP in April 2014. With other challenges such as the impact of the universal credit taking up precious time, resource and capex, how many housing providers have left themselves exposed to the risks of continuing to use of this soon-to-be unsupported operating system?…
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