The Carousel Newsletter is a monthly resource for industry news, trends and the latest offerings from Carousel Industries and our Technology Partners.
This month’s focus is on Cloud.

Internet and Cloud Exchange: Become Trusted Advisors for You Enterprise Customers

According to IDC, worldwide spending on public cloud services is expected to grow from USD 96.5 billion in 2016 to more than USD 195 billion in 2020. And Gartner points out that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow 18% in 2017, with the highest growth coming from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS).

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Contributor: Extreme Networks

From Enterprise to Education: Driving Value in 2018 with Real-Time Communications Technology

Business today gets done online, and the digital transformation of large enterprises is driving nearly every single transaction to the cloud, the web, mobile apps and more. The virtualization of these digital enterprises is creating substantial gains in employee productivity, with an unprecedented number of them “dialing in” from remote locations.

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Contributor: Ribbon

Cloud Migration: The Case for Leaving Your Analog Phones Behind

As more and more business applications move to the cloud, an increasing number of enterprises have migrated to cloud communications and collaboration solutions. The reason? These solutions offer the performance, cost benefits, and management capabilities critical to sustainable growth in today’s competitive business environment.

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Contributor: RingCentral

Migrating Your Contact Center To The Cloud

Businesses looking to migrate their Contact Center often get stuck on the migration hurdle, but it doesn’t have to derail your plans. If you’re seriously looking at improving your contact center and actively researching the cloud, it’s possible that your organization is stuck on overcoming the migration hurdle.

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Contributor: InContact

Wondering how to solve for 911 using a cloud-based solution?

Enter West’s Emergency Routing Service (ERS). This always-on solution allows you to deliver calls to PSAPs across North America, and even enables on-site security notifications, without requiring an dedicated on-premises equipment.

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Contributor: West

How do you assess, classify and control devices and VMs that you can’t see?

With ForeScout CounterACT®, you can extend visibility and control from the campus to your private and public clouds—all with a single pane of glass. ForeScout can help you improve security and compliance of your virtual assets, regardless of where they reside, using your existing security teams and processes.

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Contributor: ForeScout

Now is the Time to Move Your UC&C Platform to the Cloud

Unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) dynamics are shifting. With the widespread availability of video collaboration tools on all manner of devices, the desktop now dominates. Video conferences are no longer confined to the boardroom, and rightly so. But this leaves video’s early adopters in a predicament.

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Contributor: StarLeaf

One Foot in the Cloud

One foot in the cloud with Office 365, the other foot firmly planted on-premises with your PBX? Microsoft’s SBCs have provided the connection from third party on-premise telephony systems to Exchange Online Unified Messaging. But now, Microsoft is discontinuing support for the use of their SBC.

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Contributor: AVST

Veeam Cloud Connect; Cloud-based disaster recovery and offsite backup

Get physical and virtual backups off site and replicate VMs (virtual machines) without the cost and complexity of building and maintaining an offsite infrastructure. Veeam Cloud Connect provides a fully integrated, fast and secure way to backup, replicate and restore from the cloud.

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Contributor: Veeam

Crestron Mercury; the only UC and AV all -in-one tabletop solution

Mercury is the only conferencing solution that supports any web collaboration application. You get all the collaboration, conferencing, and presentation tools in one easy to use console. From huddle to mid-sized conference rooms you can standardize on one solution.

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Contributor: Crestron

Has Anything Changed in Two Years?

The “what to move” is almost always the catalyst behind moving to the cloud, and what deployment type to choose! To cloud or not to cloud is no longer the question.

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Contributor: CI

Don’t Worry – You’re Future-proofed with AudioCodes

Interested in voice capabilities for Microsoft Teams where coexistence with Skype for Business Online is involved? AudioCodes has the answer – say hello to CloudBond 365 OPCH (On-Premises Configuration Hybrid). CloudBond 365 OPCH serves as an alternative to Cloud Connector Edition (CCE) where coexistence with Skype for Business Server is required. It effortlessly bridges the gap between PSTN services and Skype for Business Online. CloudBond 365 OPCH not only supports co-existence with Skype for Business Server – it will also be able to provide voice capability for Microsoft Teams, making it future-proofed as well. Click here and read our latest blog and learn how AudioCodes future-proofs your investments and keeps your customers on track to intelligent communications.

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Contributor: AudioCodes

Unlock the Cloud with Legacy Equipment

Looking to move your communications to the cloud but not sure you’re ready to make the leap? It can be difficult to make the decision to retire a PBX that you’ve invested so much capital, time, and energy in, even though cloud communications can offer you so much more.
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Contributor: IntelPeer

Introducing Cisco Multicloud Portfolio

Introducing Cisco Multicloud Portfolio…an integrated set of software and services to address the complexity of working across multiple clouds. Today we’re taking the next step to execute our multicloud strategy by announcing the Cisco Multicloud Portfolio, which builds on our rich cloud product set and delivers a simple offer structure.

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Contributor: Cisco

6 Ways Cloud Traffic Can Impact Metro Networks

For service providers, connecting users to content is not just about volume. Bandwidth is driven by applications, which have changed how bandwidth is created, how it is used, when it is generated and where it originates, making it far less predictable, and much harder to manage. Here are 6 examples of how unpredictable traffic can affect a service provider’s metro network.

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Contributor: Ciena