IT & Cloud
Managed IT Services
Also called: MSP, managed service provider
An outsourced model where a provider monitors, maintains, patches, and supports a company's IT for a recurring fee, rather than billing per incident.
The economics of managed services depend on prevention. A flat fee gives the provider a direct incentive to patch, monitor, and harden — because every avoided outage is margin — whereas hourly break-fix pays best when things break. That alignment, not the helpdesk number, is the actual product.
Read the boundary, not the brochure. What is covered, response and resolution targets, whether after-hours and onsite visits are included, who owns licences and documentation, and what happens to your data and configuration if you leave. Vague scope is where managed relationships sour.
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Managed IT servicesRelated terms
- SLA
- The contractual commitment defining response and resolution targets by severity, coverage hours, and the remedy when targets are missed.
- RMM
- The agent-based platform an IT provider uses to monitor device health, deploy patches, run scripts, and support endpoints remotely at scale.
- Patch Management
- The controlled process of testing and deploying operating system, firmware, and application updates across a fleet on a defined schedule.
- Truck Roll
- Dispatching a technician to a site, and by extension the field-service programmes that deliver scheduled onsite work across many locations.
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