Knowsley Housing Trust (KHT) is a progressive, not-for-profit, independent Housing Association, based in Knowsley, a vibrant and dynamic urban area of Merseyside, managing over 13,000 high quality homes at affordable rents. KHT has a range of housing stock which includes; houses, bungalows, sheltered housing schemes, as well as low rise and multi-storey accommodation. KHT’s commercial [...]

e-commerce sites report overnight performance improvement by switching hosts
Southampton, September 25, 2009: PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX: PIX), the global online business hosting provider, has transformed the web performance of a range of e-commerce businesses by replacing the web hosting for digital agency and content management experts Eonic.
Within just three weeks of the switch [...]

Fast, reliable, automated backup and recovery protects mission critical servers
Southampton, UK, 2 September 2009: PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX:PIX), the global online business hosting provider, has today announced that it will be offering image backup and bare metal recovery (BMR) to its managed backup customers. The BMR functionality will be provided by software from [...]

Leading enterprise mobile technology group, 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com), has confirmed the appointment of Robert Dent as CEO. Dent joins 1st Touch from Governance, Risk and Compliance software company Achiever Business Solutions; a Sword Group company.
As CEO and a shareholder of Achiever, Dent had been responsible for the company’s sale to Sword in 2006. Prior to [...]

Web businesses offered industry-leading hosting value with zero service compromise
Southampton, UK – June 5, 2009 – PEER 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. (TSX:PIX), a global online IT hosting provider, is offering UK hosting customers a 30% cost-saving guarantee by switching to PEER 1’s UK hosting services*.
PEER 1 recently launched its managed hosting operations in the UK [...]

Within two years of the launch of 1st Touch www.1sttouch.com the number of customers in the social housing market who use 1st Touch enterprise mobile workforce software to manage their field workforces, has risen to over 600,000 properties between them. When compared to the total UK social housing market, which according to government [...]

Europe gets local hosting delivered by PEER 1’s own 10 GB network
Southampton, 29 April, 2009: PEER 1, the global IT hosting company has landed its SuperNetworkTM in Europe, with its first UK data centre. The 10GB network provides an IT platform that enables high through-put and per second scalability, whilst relieving PEER 1 customers from [...]

SmoothWall Launches New Guardian Secure Web Gateway
InfoSec: Leeds-based web security specialists SmoothWall are today urging UK companies to ‘buy British’ with the launch of a new rack-mounted web filtering appliance. Capable of thwarting social ‘not’workers and evil trojans alike, the new Guardian Secure Web Gateway is a proudly British product, with plenty of power under [...]

Grafton Merchanting GB, best known for brands such as Buildbase, Plumbase and Jackson Building Centres, is to offer its social housing sector customers an “out of the box” mobile parts ordering solution; following a partnership with Europe’s leading enterprise mobile workforce technology group 1st Touch (www.1sttouch.com).
The two year renewable package comprises a high-spec, touch screen [...]

Centennial School District in Bucks County, PA Chooses CyberData’s VoIP Ceiling Speaker and AcroVista BellCommander for Overhead Paging and Scheduled Notifications
CyberData, the leading manufacturer of VoIP endpoints for Unified Communications announced today that Centennial School District in Bucks County, Pennsylvania installed CyberData’s VoIP Ceiling Speakers and AcroVista’s BellCommander to provide general paging, scheduled audio, [...]