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6 best practices for structuring a SMART SLA

Yes, you can negotiate the customized service level agreement you need to ensure solid IT services performance and availability – even for your hyperscale public cloud services.

Developing the SMART SLA your business needs – a service level agreement that’s specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and timely – begins with these 6 best practices:

Tim Burke

Making sure you get the IT services you pay for

Anyone who’s signed up for even a simple cloud service has encountered (and, I hope, actually read) the accompanying service level agreement (SLA), which delineates precisely what services you’re getting and the metrics by which the levels of those services are measured.

Tim Burke

Getting the IT talent you need: 4 best practices

Given the mission-critical nature of your organization’s IT operations, it’s essential that you attract and retain the right IT human resources. To acquire the IT talent you need, I suggest these 4 best practices:

Tim Burke

Does Your Cloud Provider Care About You?

Offloading your IT functions to a cloud service can be an immense relief.

The day-to-day operational hassles belong to someone else. Dashboards and web portals make it much easier to track network and application performance, even if you’re lounging by a pool somewhere. When you need to scale up or down, there’s an app for that. The security of your data is in the hands of well-trained experts using sophisticated tools. Time for another mojito.

Tim Burke

Where has all the IT talent gone?

If you’re struggling to find the kind of skilled IT human resources your company requires, you’re not alone. Tech employment is increasing at nearly twice the pace of overall job growth .

Tim Burke

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