On behalf of Carousel Industries. I wish all of you, and your families, the very best during the Holiday Season. Thanks to your loyalty, 2009 was another very solid year for Carousel which saw continued growth and expansion. Dedication to customer success is a core value that affects everything Carousel does and we recognize that we must earn the right every day to continue to serve you.
As we look back on 2009, two of the highlights we are very proud of are the successful launch of Carousel University – a training and development program designed to enable customers to be continually educated on our ‘best-in-class’ offerings in the constantly changing technology landscape and SmartPoint Managed Services – a premium support service designed to monitor and manage your entire voice and data infrastructure. These two new offers are driving tremendous value to our customers.
As we look forward to 2010, we’re very excited about the launch of Carousel Consulting – a vendor neutral consulting service to help design, develop and deploy successful technology solutions to achieve your business objectives. These new offers and many others are a direct result of your feedback and business needs, please keep them coming.
Thank you for your partnership! Wishing you a healthy and prosperous New Year.
Jeff Gardner
CEO – Carousel Industries
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F5 and VMware partner to enable live application and storage migrations
between data centers and clouds
Cloud computing has become an important technology to consider for organizations that are looking to optimize their IT operations and reduce operating costs. Until now, leveraging the cloud involved either setting up and running applications in the cloud and managing them long-term off-premise, or running services as a one-time event. Migrating existing services, applications, and virtual machines to the cloud presented immense networking complexities, and if performed outside a local data center, was a non-trivial challenge. Moving live services without user interruption was virtually impossible.
F5 and VMware have developed a joint solution to overcome these limitations and enable enterprise customers to migrate application services between clouds without user impact.
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Article contributed by: F5
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As a leader in developing and using technology to enhance patient care, Parkview was looking to create a work environment that better matched the inherently mobile nature of its workflow in delivering patient care. This included addressing staffing issues between hospital facilities, accessing specialists, communication among staff and family members across various locations, and faster diagnosis and treatment while improving patient safety.
After a successful pilot, Parkview rolled out a new wireless network based on Meru Networks’ Virtual Cell™ architecture to all seven hospital facilities. This WLAN system allowed all APs to reside on a single channel, so they could be placed wherever coverage was needed without worrying about co-channel interference—thus tedious and costly site surveys were all but eliminated.
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Article contributed by: Meru Networks
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No single TEM capability has greater potential impact on your telecom and IT spend than the ability to negotiate effectively with providers and source telecom services and products at the most favorable terms. Contracted pricing and SLAs have strategic value and long term impact on the bottom line. But nailing the contract is just the beginning; managing to the contract and monitoring contract and vendor performance is essential for leveraging maximum benefits during the contract lifecycle and in future negotiations.
To be effective, a contract management solution must be integrated with your TEM system and database. Only then can it provide the visibility you need to control orders, validate invoices, meet commitments, and analyze contract and vendor performance.
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Article contributed by: Veramark
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One of the big UC applications that both reduces business costs and speeds up collaborative work is real‐time conferencing. The latter benefit is particularly useful when independent experts in different locations outside of an organization have to discuss issues in a timely manner. With the way UC Strategies.com is organized, not only does simplified voice conferencing facilitate coordination of creative thinking between the independent UC experts, but it also closes the loop between conducting internal discussions and the selective publication of such thinking in the form of immediate Web podcasts.
The challenge that UC Strategies experts face is not uncommon in most businesses today. Not everyone who needs to be involved in discussing issues or sharing information is necessarily in the same physical location at the same time any more. What makes the challenge for UC Strategies as an objective industry thought‐leader group even more interesting is that the topics discussed are very dynamic and debatable and are very interesting to its audience.
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Article contributed by: Sonexis
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Each year the U.S. Federal government awards millions of dollars in grant funding to schools, first responders, healthcare organizations, and other public entities for the purchase of new technologies, such as visual communication solutions, to improve and maintain the performance of public and community services.
TANDBERG, the global leader in visual communication is committed to providing added value to its customers with their Grant Services Program. Through their team of Regional Grant Managers they provide expert guidance and support to Education, Healthcare, and State & Local entities that are searching for funding assistance to help source video conferencing endpoints and infrastructure.
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Article contributed by: KBZ Communications - Tandberg
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