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As we explored in our previous article, mergers and acquisitions are prevalent in the managed service provider (MSP) space. If your provider has recently been purchased, you might be feeling some anxiety about the transition – organizations like yours...

There is a lot of merger and acquisition activity in the IT outsourcing industry today, including plenty here in the in the DC area. While this isn’t necessarily a new trend – private equity firms have been busy in the IT space for several years now – it...

Whether you're starting the search for an IT firm or looking to strengthen your partnership with your existing IT team, it's important to determine how your needs as an organization align with what a particular provider will deliver.  We've reached the...

After being in business for almost 30 years, we at Optimal aren’t strangers to the IT industry. We’ve seen many Managed Service Providers (MSPs) come and go in the local area, and many of the companies we’ve worked with over the past few decades have...

Outsourced IT, or managed IT services, means placing some or all of your information systems in the hands of an outside technology consulting firm (or Managed Service Provider). In many cases, associations will outsource when they simply don’t want to...

Outsourced IT, or managed IT services, means placing some or all of your information systems in the hands of an outside technology consulting firm (or Managed Service Provider). In many cases, law firms will opt to outsource when they don’t want to...