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What is a managed service provider? Strategic outsourcing for IT services

CIO

Service level agreements (SLAs): Contracts between MSPs and their clients outline the level of service expected , the metrics by which this service will be measured, and any remedies that should be undertaken or penalties that should be incurred should service levels not be achieved.

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Infrastructure Engineer: Key Duties, Skills, and Background

Altexsoft

The article promoted the idea of a new type of system administrator who would write code to automate maintenance, upgrades, and other tasks instead of doing everything manually. In smaller companies, networking falls into the responsibilities of an infrastructure engineer or system administrator. Infrastructure architect.

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Fed Tech News Roundup 8 July 2015

CTOvision

Boston builds out data visualization - GCN.com GCN (Today) - GCN.comBoston builds out data visualizationGCN.comBoston's data-visualization journey began, as many cities' do, when the mayor requested a dashboard of key indicators and metrics so he could monitor government operations across. Marine Corps, Interior Dept.

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DevOps Tools and Toolchain made easy to understand!

Openxcell

Datadog is a performance monitoring tool that is used to determine performance metrics and event monitoring for cloud services and infrastructure. It compiles metrics and events across the DevOps stack and offers complete user experience visibility on one platform. Puppet also helps to collaborate developers and system administrators.

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The Cloud Cost-Conscious Conundrum

taos

Take the example of establishing a database server with validated backup and a failover companion in a second data center. We can also consider an example of application metrics and logging. Previously this would take countless hours (or days) for a DBA to fulfil.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Just a few notes on methodology: This report is based on O’Reilly’s internal “Units Viewed” metric. Usage of content about Linux is down 6.9%: not a major change but possibly a reflection of the fact that the latest steps forward in deploying and managing software shield people from direct contact with the operating system.

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