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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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Cloud

Five Reasons to Explore a Hybrid Cloud Strategy

Cloud services are a great alternative for almost every company for many compute needs. Access to such services can be easy and rapid to obtain—many will even accept your credit card. Many tasks come to mind as being better from cloud sources like payroll and employee benefits, expense management and even CRM for smaller companies.  […]

01.24.2017

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Professional Services

IT Directors and CIOs: Spend More Time Focusing On Leadership

It’s a well-known fact that the IT talent pool is ever-shrinking. In fact, just last year in Gartner’s 2016 CIO report, talent became recognized globally as the “single biggest issue” preventing CIOs from achieving their objectives. The story does not appear to be looking much better as we head into 2017. You May Also Like: […]

01.17.2017

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Security

Assumption of Breach, Part II—The People Element

In the first installment of this series I discussed the need for organizations to change their approach to cyber security to an “assumption of breach model,” or an understanding that in today’s threat landscape, it is unrealistic to thwart 100 percent of malicious attacks. That previous post also mentioned that this new approach should focus […]

01.16.2017

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UC&C

Video Engagement in a Customer Centric World

The widespread adoption of consumer video communication services such as Microsoft Skype, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger or Apple FaceTime has democratized video calling. Together with the development of WebRTC, it created the expectation that video chat can be easily added as an interaction channel for customer engagement and support. At Vidyo we learned with our […]

11.16.2016

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Announcements

It’s Game Time!

People who know me understand that my passions revolve around my family and friends, our business, the success of our clients…and of course, college football. For me, the core areas of my day-to-day possess an intensity that can be defined only by the excitement of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Football Championship. The season of change […]

11.08.2016

Security

Understanding Adversary Intent

In the spirit of the first Presidential debate, I would like discuss the topic of cybersecurity, which was one of only a few words NBC moderator Lester Holt was able to squeeze in. Even though at times the debate seemed less like a diplomatic dispute and more like a drunken quarrel between two sports fans […]

10.18.2016

Security

Aligning IT and School Administrators for Security Success in Higher Education

A decade, or even a few years ago, cyber security issues would not have been on most university and college presidents’ minds. In this new world, however, where major American political parties and government agencies are being compromised, these educational leaders must be focused on protecting their institutions from malicious actors. Like leaders of large […]

06.23.2016

IAUG Ahead of the Curve 2016

Events

How Carousel Rocked Avaya ENGAGE 2016

The International Avaya Users Group (IAUG) Annual Summit held last week in Orlando was a resounding success!  With well over 2,000+ attendees, 200+ hours of educational content and 10+ dedicated networking expo hours – IAUG was THE place to be for devoted Avaya users and technology partners. It’s worth mentioning that IAUG launched on the […]

06.17.2016