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How managed/hosted services can deliver competitive advantage

It’s pretty easy these days for your IT operations to feel a bit out of control as you field all those demands to deploy IT resources in the cause of creating competitive advantage.

Your budget doesn’t budge much, but the demands certainly do. Throw more workloads into more and different clouds while somehow also adequately overseeing and supporting all those cloud, managed, and co–location services. Accelerate application development . Achieve greater scalability . Ensure that your enterprise data–as well as access to it–is always sufficiently secure .

Tim Burke

4 cloud best practices in 2018

Use of cloud services is growing fast and evolving even faster. To adapt…

Pay attention to cloud performance and management

Before you shift anything (else) to a cloud…

Tim Burke

The Biggest Threat Facing Your Data in 2018

The intangibility of cloud storage makes it easy to leave the proverbial front door unlocked. This is exactly what happened when a developer at Uber inadvertently included the startup’s Amazon Web Services login credentials in code shared to the open source site GitHub – exposing the private data of 50 million of the platform’s customers.

Tim Burke

2017 Was the Most Expensive Disaster Year Ever

2017 hit cities across our country with some of the most extreme – and expensive – natural disasters ever seen. There were at least 15 weather events this year costing at least a billion dollars each. Yes, we said Billion with a B.

Tim Burke

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

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