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DevOps teams and site reliability engineers (SREs) contend with a never-ending flood of notifications and alerts about outages, potential threats, and other incidents. Companies rely on their DevOps teams to not only keep abreast of all the notifications but also to identify and prioritize the critical alerts and resolve problems in a timely manner. Yet in 2021, International Data Corporation (IDC) reported that companies with 500-1,499 employees ignored or failed to investigate 27% of all alerts.
I’m hearing a lot of talk around the industry about M&A slowing down. However, the reality I’m seeing is that while the initial landgrab may well have blown over, the change in the cost of borrowing is forcing MSPs that are looking to grow by acquisition to think much more strategically. Instead of doing multiple acquisitions in a year, these companies and their PE backers are doing a smaller number of very strategic, larger acquisitions.