You were quite critical of Service Level Agreements in your recent column, “ Run, IT run … but not as a business,” (Keep the Joint Running, 1/28/2008), describing them as formal contracts between IT ...

Outsourcing can be critical to running an effective IT department, particularly in a tight tech economy. But both the proliferation of outsourcing services and the shakeout of service providers in ...

Establishing agreed upon services levels for database applications is of the utmost importance for assuring that performance meets required criteria. Without pre-determined, negotiated service level ...

Some service-focused tech companies are looking to make their service-level agreements more customer-centric—adopting “experience-level” agreements, dubbed by industry watchers “XLAs.” Such agreements ...

What Is A Service-Level Agreement (SLA)? A service-level agreement (SLA) is a formal agreement between a service provider and a customer that outlines the expected level of service. It is a contract ...

Many IT administrators aren’t comfortable handing over control of the most critical security components of their infrastructure. But in recent years, security outsourcing has become a popular and ...