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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 Providing Effective, Proactive Application Performance Management

November 16, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment
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In a world where you’ve got employees connecting to your network from all kinds of different devices and locations, it can be tough to deliver great performance from all your applications all the time. Yet that’s exactly what users expect. To meet those expectations requires you have not only a top-notch network architecture, but more and more it requires businesses to have a solid network and application performance management strategy in place. What is performance management? Performance management is an approach that that enables you to identify what constitutes normal behavior in your network and alerts you when things are… Continue Reading ›

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5 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Cloud Backup Provider

September 9, 2011 By Editor 1 Comment
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At Carousel, we are consistently having discussions about cloud and virtualization strategies with clients and prospects, and sooner or later (usually sooner), the conversation always gets around to cloud backup.  The concept seems like low-hanging fruit….it is redundant, off-site, cost-effective (isn’t it?), and allows you to scale quickly.  What’s not to like? Because of this perception, it is often one of the early areas of focus when businesses develop a cloud strategy.  But it is not as easy as throwing your data onto a remote server and forgetting about it.  As with all aspects of cloud migration, it should be… Continue Reading ›

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Benefits of Identity-Aware Networks – and Tips for Getting There

September 7, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment
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Gartner is predicting that by the end of this year, 30 percent of large corporate networks will become “identity-aware,” meaning they will have features and technologies that enable them to associate user identities with specific network traffic and behavior.  The idea is to provide tight access control for applications and resources, taking into account not only who users are, but where they are and what device they’re using – all without forcing users to memorize dozens of user IDs and passwords. In a previous post, we covered four reasons why your network should be identity aware.   In this post, we’ll… Continue Reading ›

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4 Reasons why your Network Needs to be “Identity-Aware”

August 24, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment
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As companies become ever-more mobile, and embrace technologies including software-as-a-service and cloud computing as well as social media, they need to rethink how they identify the individuals and devices that request access to corporate networks. In a world of distributed devices, people and resources, companies need an identity management strategy that takes into account an employee’s or business partner’s specific roles and access rights to internal infrastructure and applications, as well as the device they’re using and their location. In short, companies need “identity-aware” networks that provide data about both machines and humans. In this post, we’ll give you four… Continue Reading ›

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Caught in the Middle: Addressing IT Challenges for Mid-Market Companies

August 23, 2011 By joepitkin Leave a Comment
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Many newer technology solutions address the problems large enterprises encounter within their datacenter, and are scaled to sustain large infrastructure requirements. Large companies require continuous production environments and need an IT backbone that supports this continuity. In addition, hosted solutions have opened the door for small companies to take advantage of high-end datacenter solutions without high capital investment costs. Smaller businesses often do not require as extensive solution sets, but still need a backbone IT for common business tasks. Also, limited IT staffcreates obstacles for managing their environments properly, leaning decision makers towards hosted solutions. While newer solutions fit well within… Continue Reading ›

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Wireless Networks vs. Ethernet Networks. Is there Still a Debate?

June 22, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment
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The move towards wireless networks seems inexorable. Mobility is rapidly starting to trump all other considerations when it comes to networking (well, not security, but those other considerations), so the question becomes are there times when an Ethernet, hard-wired LAN still makes sense for a business? The short answer is absolutely, depending on the business requirements. In a recent conversation with Chris Williams, a wireless and networking specialist at Carousel Industries, we discussed the pros and cons of each technology and the role each could play in your organization in 2011 depending on your needs. Ethernet Networks – The Need… Continue Reading ›

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How Managed Service Providers Can Benefit Your Business

June 3, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment
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For most organizations today, 80% of IT resources are devoted to simply maintaining day-to-day operations. Troubleshooting, reacting to outages, upgrading, patching, provisioning and dealing with hardware end-of-life issues are consuming IT teams and ensures that “reaction” becomes the strategy of the day. This has led many organizations to turn to Managed Service Providers (MSP) to help bridge the gap between IT resource limits and the everyday demands of critical business processes. What Are Managed Service Providers MSPs are professional, outsourced IT teams that assume responsibility for monitoring andmaintaining your telecommunications and network infrastructure. Hiring the right MSP for your organization… Continue Reading ›

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The Modern Data Center – Podcast Interview with Juniper Networks

June 2, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment
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In this information packed interview with Calvin Chai, the Director of Enterprise Marketing with JuniperNetworks, we discuss Data Centers. What’s new, what trends are impacting the market, how technology is evolving and how businesses are responding. Some of the topics we cover include: Architectural Shifts in Technology There are several mega-trends in the technology marketplace that are impacting modern Data Center design and deployment, including: Application Development and Architecture – SOA, Web 2.0 and federated applications are all changing the way that applications call on additional resources and are significantly impacting Data Center traffic patterns. Virtualization – Avoiding server sprawl,… Continue Reading ›

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Bringing Smartphone Users “On-Board” with Mobile Device Management

May 2, 2011 By Editor Leave a Comment
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Businesses are working hard to define their mobile device strategy and put standards and protocols in place that determine which mobile devices will be allowed on the network and how security and access for these devices will be managed.  When push comes to shove, smartphones and tablets need to be configured with software and settings to reflect the corporate policy and that’s where comes into play. Modern smartphones and tablets come with the capacity to remotely deploy security layers and connections on employee devices without having to posses or own the technology.  This provides companies with a unique opportunity to… Continue Reading ›

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