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How IT can still influence LOB tech spend in the digital era

A newly hired CIO arrived at a $500-million consumer products company. He was surprised by what he found. “There wasn’t a standard way of evaluating and approving and managing technology,” recalls Tres Roeder, project management author, speaker, and consultant, who worked with that new CIO. The CIO set out to do the logical thing: Evaluate […]

09.04.2018

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To provide greater business value, IT needs a new way of monitoring events

Disconcerting fact: Most IT departments use an average of nine—yes nine—different tools to monitor their environment. In other words, they have given themselves another nine different boxes and nine different applications to manage. And the really weird part? Very rarely do these apps even talk to each other. Wait, it gets worse. In settings where […]

08.16.2018

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Don’t underestimate the healthcare patient experience

A few years ago, I first heard that hospitals and clinics were investing in hiring Chief Experience Officers (CXO) to focus solely on the patient experience. It was an incredible validator that the days of patients solely choosing providers for strong medical prowess were gone. Instead, today’s patients are searching for reputable medical practitioners AND […]

07.02.2018

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3 Ways IT Leaders Can Deliver Business Transformation

We have been witnessing a significant evolution in IT as the department transforms from serving as a siloed entity to one that deploys technology in essentially every function within every business. Much of this change is due to the influx of collaboration tools, Everything as a Service (XaaS) and hybrid technologies that have been shifting […]

07.02.2018

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Cisco Partner View: Jason Viera, NWN Carousel

06.18.2018

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Using Collaboration for Insightful Business

Currently serving as the Vice President Collaboration at NWN Carousel, Kevin McCarron has two decades of illustrious career in the Unified Communications & Collaboration (UC&C) industry. Having joined the industry right after college, McCarron has worked in different roles in systems integration and IT service provider organizations. At NWN Carousel, McCarron leads Carousel’s Cisco, Avaya, […]

05.22.2018

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NWN Carousel: ‘We Want Partners to Be More Valuable to End Users’

Partner program director Anthony Cavotta sat down at the Channel Partners Conference and Expo to talk about the maturation of MSPs that Carousel works with, as well as those organizations that are just getting into carrier services. NWN Carousel is a multidimensional IT consulting, management and integration provider that made a big splash at the […]

05.22.2018

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It’s time for SD-WAN to grow up

2018 has already been hailed as the “Year of SD-WAN” and while the promises of this technology are undoubtedly appealing to most enterprises, it’s equally important to understand its potential shortcomings. The “Death of the Router” has been largely exaggerated by those trying to market their “silver bullet” solutions that still lack basic routing capabilities. […]

04.11.2018

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Extreme Networks Launches Extreme Capital Solutions to Bring Flexible Financing Options to Customers and Partners

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the move to cloud computing enables businesses to define the solution they require and seamlessly adjust to shifts in needs without incurring a significant capital expenditure. Businesses are looking to adopt similar strategies in all areas of the enterprise that enable them to achieve those same […]

04.03.2018

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Using Collaboration for Insightful Business

04.02.2018