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Telework Week Demonstrates Big Savings from Home Worker Strategies

May 11, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment
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Working from home saves the time and fuel associated with commuting, and thus real dollars, but can also improve employee productivity and make employees happier. Not surprisingly, management is taking notice and becoming more receptive to the idea. Those are some of the key takeaways from Telework Week 2012, co-sponsored by Cisco and the Telework Exchange, a public-private partnership focused on demonstrating the tangible value of telework and serving the educational and communication requirements of the Federal teleworker community.  This was the second year of the weeklong event and participation was up fairly dramatically, with an 80% increase in the… Continue Reading ›

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Virtual Desktops: A Key Component of BYOD Success

May 4, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment

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At Carousel we get a lot of questions from customers about the BYOD (bring your own device) trend.  One topic that comes up over and over is how to securely enable employees to interact with the corporate network from any device while allowing them to be as productive as possible.  In this regard, Virtual Desktop, or VDI, is a powerful solution – albeit one that is part of a  comprehensive, holistic solution and does not exist in a vacuum.  We had a chance to catch up with Phil Magnuszewski, the Director of Cloud and Virtualization Solutions at Carousel, to discuss… Continue Reading ›

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State of the Security Marketplace – Fortinet Podcast Interview

April 18, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment
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As we’ve previously reported, the IT security threat landscape has changed in the last couple of years, shifting from one dominated by “bored hackers” to one where monetary gain is the primary objective. “[Today] we’re seeing a large component of organized crime, corporate espionage and terrorism,” says Kevin Flynn, senior manager of product marketing for Fortinet, a Carousel Industries partner that is a leader in the unified threat management security space. To properly protect themselves in this environment, companies have to adjust their thinking when it comes to security. Listen to the whole discussion in this information packed podcast. Mind… Continue Reading ›

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Carousel is Prepped for iPad Data Onslaught – Are You?

March 13, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment
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The new iPad is set to hit the streets on March 16, an event for which Carousel Industries has been preparing for about 18 months, says Scott Moody, the company’s Manager of Corporate Technology. “We recognized these were going to be a game-changer,” says Moody, who is responsible for Carousel’s internal IT requirements. “We’ve been preparing for the influx of Wireless connectivity and mobility for a year and a half.” Faster iPad Connection = More Data With its support for 4G/LTE networks, the new iPad (which everyone but Apple calls the iPad 3) will support far greater data transfer speeds… Continue Reading ›

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4 Best Practices for Developing a Strategy for Mobile Security

February 28, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment
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Today’s workers are more mobile than ever before, depending on a wide variety of network-enabled electronic devices to get their jobs done. As a result, wireless networks are no longer just a convenience, a nice-to-have feature that impresses visitors to your building. They are crucial to the everyday performance of most any organization. In this kind of environment, companies must have an effective strategy for providing not only mobile communications, but also ensuring the security of those communications. Coming up with such a plan requires a willingness to review how your organization works, and how the needs of your users… Continue Reading ›

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3 Approaches to Identifying Mobile Devices

February 24, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment
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When it comes to managing wireless devices on your network, you’ve got two basic options: treat the device as a known entity that is allowed to access the corporate network, or as an unknown entity that is not. But there are several ways to make that determination, says Chris Williams, a systems engineer with Carousel Industries, and they are progressively more granular and useful. Fingerprinting and Web Browser Snooping The simplest way to identify a device is through fingerprinting or web browser snooping. With fingerprinting, when the device logs on, it performs a DHCP request. In that request is a… Continue Reading ›

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Facing the Top Challenges Confronting IT: Avaya Podcast

February 6, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment

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As a leading vendor that supplies infrastructure and tools to help customers address business requirements around voice, data and unified communications, Avaya sees first-hand the biggest challenges companies are facing. But it also knows how to address them. In this information packed podcast, we caught up with Steven Bandrowczak, Vice President of Global Accounts at Avaya, to get his thoughts on what he sees as the most vexing IT challenges of the day. 3 Biggest Challenges Facing IT Without hesitation, Bandrowczak cites the bring your own device phenomenon as the # 1 trend, “in every industry, every size segment, every… Continue Reading ›

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3 Keys to Setting Up a Temporary Wireless LAN

January 27, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment

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As more and more people roam this earth armed with smart phones, tablets and all manner of communications devices, they pretty much expect to have wireless Internet access all the time. And being outside at, say, a corporate barbecue or a sporting event is no excuse not to have connectivity. Similarly, first-responders in emergency situations often need Internet access in places where such access doesn’t normally exist – and fast. The answer is a temporary wireless LANs, which are becoming quite easy to set up, according to Chris Williams, a systems engineer with Carousel Industries. “If you want to deploy… Continue Reading ›

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Desktop Virtualization ROI: 4 Benefits that Change the Equation

January 7, 2012 By Editor Leave a Comment
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Desktop virtualization technology has been rather slow to gain favor in the enterprise in part because of perceived cost concerns. Let’s face it, with the plummeting cost of hardware, you can likely buy replacement desktops for $600 to $800.  The cost to implement desktop virtualization may run closer to $1,000 per seat. But those figures are misleading, says Phil Magnuszewski, director of data center technologies at Carousel, because they don’t take into consideration the many benefits that desktop virtualization delivers. When you add up the soft dollars associated with these benefits, the cost equation quickly tips in desktop virtualization’s favor.… Continue Reading ›

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Some Trends and Innovations to Carry Us Through 2012

December 27, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment
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Around this time of year, we love reading all the “best of” and “worst of” lists recounting the past 12 months, along with the predictions of what’s to come. This week we stumbled on a good piece at Smartplanet.com highlighting “10 game-changing business innovations for 2012.” While all 10 of the technologies listed bear watching, we think the following four are particularly interesting and, for the most part, especially relevant to our IT audience. Cloud Computing Accelerates As the Smartplanet post points out: Thanks to the availability of powerful and low-cost on-demand technologies, innovators now have access to computing and… Continue Reading ›

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