Senior ICT managers across the housing sector are looking for compelling reasons for investing in technologies that enhance collaborative working, such as unified communications. In this article, the third of five on unified communications, the focus falls on a new generation of young people who are now entering the economy. Sometimes known as ‘Generation Y’,…
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Infrastructure
Safer surfing at Pierhead Housing with Bloxx
Pierhead Housing has reduced its IT administration and improved management reporting with the Bloxx web-filtering appliance. Pierhead, which manages 1800 properties around Liverpool and the Wirral, had been using a web filtering system to manage employee internet access and to protect their users and network from web security threats, but were unhappy with some aspects…
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Guinness in nationwide integration with ANS
Guinness Partnership is integrating five technology infrastructures onto a common platform with support from ANS Group. Guinness Partnership, which manages over 55,000 properties, comprises the Guinness Trust, Guinness Northern Counties, Guinness Hermitage, Guinness Midsummer and Gloucestershire Housing Association. As each housing organisation had previously operated independently, they each had their own infrastructure, such as email…
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Federation data safe as houses with FutureSoft
The National Housing Federation has implemented FutureSoft’s PointGuard software to control staff access to applications, devices and data. The Federation, which has 150 staff in offices across England and represents 1200 housing organisations, needed to update its data security and handling capabilities to deal with the threat posed by staff downloading non-business files or unwittingly…
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Family Mosaic outsources network & servers to Telstra
Family Mosaic has signed a new agreement with Telstra to deliver IT service efficiencies across its organisation. As part of the agreement, Telstra is providing high-speed MPLS (multi-protocol label switching) network connectivity and secure hosting facilities for the Family Mosaic server farms which serve seven major sites and more than 80 smaller Family Mosaic offices….
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VIPRE uncoils Surrey Community
Surrey Community Development Trust (SCDT) has switched from Symantec to Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE system for its anti-virus protection. SCDT, a charity which provides housing and support facilities for vulnerable people in Surrey and Berkshire, was frustrated that its existing anti-virus software from Symantec (Endpoint Protection) was using so much system resource during scans that it…
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