• About the customer

    Helping Hyde Housing Understand the Value of Cloud

    For almost 60 years Hyde Housing have been providing affordable homes, maintaining and investing in them, and building genuinely affordable homes also. They’re goal is to make sure people have a safe, affordable home to be proud of, this underpins their vision og what a great home is for everyone. They also provide a wide range of community services and spaces, ensuring that people and communities are able to come together.
     
    We helped Hyde Housing see beyond immediate performance issues. With rigorous analysis, we identified a new future in the Cloud. And with our different perspective we helped push virtualisation technology to its full potential with our UK Managed Services solution.

The Challenge

  • Creating a Vision for Cloud

    Hyde Housing urgently needed to update systems and improve performance. They chose us for our straight-up, no-nonsense approach. In other words, we were not afraid to challenge existing preconceptions.

     

    Because we knew value for money for this housing association was key, we left no stone unturned. So, as part of our analysis, we drew up a full picture of their applications, servers and data centres. And this approach paid off. Not only did it provide the fullest possible picture for future direction, we uncovered underused technology. We then immediately put this VMware hypervisor to work to boost performance. As a result Hyde were able to maximise existing investments.

    £200k/year

    IT savings, as well as a rapid performance improvement and a clear, goal-driven vision for cloud

Customer Quote

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    De-commissioning 70 servers felt great! Moving to a Managed Service has delivered immediate savings to re-invest back into the business.

    Programme and Delivery Manager

    Hyde Housing Association

The Solution

Technology/Service Overview

  • UK Managed Services Solution
  • Consultancy

 

The Outcomes

Improving Performance Without Breaking Budgets

Following our successful analysis, Hyde Housing appointed us to build a new custom UK Managed Services solution. This is delivered from our own leading Data Centre and has helped them achieve even greater resilience and performance. Because they have the latest power and cooling technology, Hyde Housing now has the stability needed.

 

And, critically it has helped end users do a much better job. For example, field staff can log in from remote locations securely and quickly. This has particularly helped their maintenance team who only have a short window to upload large photos in between jobs.

 

Following on from our robust analysis, the Hyde Housing IT team have secured buy-in and resources to start their well-planned move to the Cloud.

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