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

CIO

A managed service provider (MSP) is an outsourcer contracted to remotely manage or deliver IT services such as network, application, infrastructure, or security management to a client company by assuming full responsibility for those services, determining proactively what technologies and services are needed to fulfill the client’s needs.

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2020 IT Operations Survey Results – Highlights and Key Takeaways

Kaseya

Security and data protection remains the biggest challenge, due in part to the added risk of employees using unsecured Wi-Fi network connections and unpatched, remote, off-network computers. These and many more insights can be found in our 2020 IT Operations Survey Results Reports. Figure 1: Top Priorities for IT Leaders.

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Beyond.pl: Addressing sovereign cloud needs in Poland and beyond

CIO

According to the Cloud Pulse 2Q22 survey conducted by consulting company IDC, data sovereignty and compliance with local regulations are important in shaping IT architecture for almost half of the 1,350 global cloud customers surveyed (48%). This is also confirmed by reports.

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2023 MSP Benchmark Survey: Where Executives Differ From Their Tech Partners

Kaseya

The question remains — do executives and technicians at a managed service provider (MSP) always agree on everything? With the 2023 MSP Benchmark Survey, we aimed to understand how well the business and technical sides of an MSP align. A look at the demographics The 2023 Kaseya MSP Global Benchmark Survey had 1,091 respondents.

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How to create an effective business continuity plan

CIO

According to PwC’s 2023 Global Crisis and Resilience Survey , 96% of 1,812 business leaders said their organizations had experienced disruption in the past two years and 76% said their most serious disruption had a medium to high impact on operations. This is essentially a business impact analysis.

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How to run data on Kubernetes: 6 starting principles

TechCrunch

Kubernetes is fast becoming an industry standard, with up to 94% of organizations deploying their services and applications on the container orchestration platform, per a survey. For companies that use ML, labeled data is the key differentiator. Standardizing on Kubernetes gives organizations the ability to deploy any workload, anywhere.

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Defending against ransomware is all about the basics

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A survey on O’Reilly’s website 1 showed that 6% of the respondents worked for organizations that were victims of ransomware attacks. Strong passwords, two-factor authentication, defense in depth, staying on top of software updates, good backups, and the ability to restore from backups go a long way.

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