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A Drive for Community Engagement

Our teams across the country have been supporting their communities in innovative ways. From volunteer events to charity golf tournaments — we have a roundup of how NWN Carousel employees are making an impact. Our expectations have significantly changed. COVID-19 compelled many of us to reconsider what’s important in our lives. This has led to […]

10.19.2021

Announcements

What’s the #1 Benefit Employees Want?
Survey says: Balance.

NWN Carousel is thrilled to be among the top 30 small-to-mid-sized companies in the country to be recognized by Comparably for 2021 Work-Life Balance! The awards are selected based on employee opinion in nearly 20 core culture categories. We ranked #28 on this year’s list. At NWN Carousel, we pride ourselves as being a culture that […]

10.13.2021

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Announcements

Good to Great: Helping Define Your Path for 2017

It’s hard to believe that 2016 is already in the rearview mirror, particularly when we think back to the defining moments of last year. In addition to us witnessing massive disruption in the IT industry—from an unprecedented number of M&As to a surge in cyber-attacks—we saw great innovation come forward in a number of spaces, […]

03.06.2017

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Data Center

Capitalizing on Internet Economics and Building a More Agile WAN

As applications shift toward the cloud and internet connectivity continues to drop in price and improve in reliability, clients have flocked toward hybrid WAN solutions. Historically, IT leaders chose to leverage internet for backup relying on routing protocols for fail-over. In all practicality, these hybrid options are managed as two disparate networks and provide redundancy, […]

02.28.2017

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Events

GAME ON at Avaya Engage, 2017

Experience was everything at last week’s Avaya ENGAGE 2017, which draws more than 2,000 Avaya users, speakers and leadership together each year. Held at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the event is comprised of content and speakers from the Avaya user community to learn, network and engage with some of the most prolific minds […]

02.27.2017

Cloud computing

Cloud

Head in the Clouds: 2017 Trends

With cloud adoption on the rise, and with so many cloud technologies and consumption models now available, the question for all size businesses is how to best leverage cloud solutions to accomplish business objectives. And, many will be asking questions like: How can we deploy cloud applications rapidly and cost-effectively? Is a private, public or […]

02.24.2017

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Carrier Services

Telecom Considerations for Designing IT Solutions

It’s critically important for organizations to consider connectivity and bandwidth requirements when they are planning to move applications to the cloud. But it is also a microcosm of a larger point, which is that telecom considerations should be taken into account for any solution design. Let’s take Unified Communications (UC) as an example. Oftentimes when […]

02.20.2017

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Carrier Services

Bandwidth for Cloud Applications: Easy to Overlook, Crucial to Address

Two months into 2017, IT finds itself in a challenging yet invigorating time. IT leaders have never had such a wide range of solutions at their disposal, which can be a bit overwhelming but also exciting, as new technologies offer opportunities for IT to help transform the way their colleagues work and gain influence across […]

02.19.2017

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Carrier Services

2017 Telecom Carrier Trends

We are halfway through the first quarter of 2017—how have some of the biggest industry and telecom trends shaped your plans for the remainder of the year? I spoke with members of our carrier services team to talk top trends for this year. Here is what they said: Theresa Vernon—Senior Account Manager “There are several […]

02.16.2017

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UC&C

Simple Ways to Increase Adoption of UC Tools – Part 2

This is part two in a two-part series. To read the first part, please click here. You secured the budget, you worked tirelessly to install the collaboration tools and now, crickets from employees. Collaboration itself isn’t new for staff; instead, it’s the wide array of tools that enable businesses to collaborate more effectively, both internally […]

02.14.2017