Odyssey Blog
IT Infrastructure Monitoring: 6 Reasons to Partner with an MSP
There’s no doubt IT infrastructure monitoring and management are critical to your organization’s success. You don’t know what could go wrong or when. Hardware problems at any hour, batch not completing at night, telecom issues, software updates gone wrong—the list is long, especially when you alone are the entire IT department. IT production support [...]
Odyssey’s Kristin Hughes Wins 2021 SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge
On the heels of its 20th anniversary, Odyssey Information Services is celebrating another milestone: Its first SourceCon Grandmaster Challenge champion. Kristin Hughes, director of recruiting and senior technical recruiter, recently was announced winner of the 2021 global sourcing competition that places talent acquisition professionals in a race against the clock to find people online [...]
IT Infrastructure Monitoring: 5 Best Practices You Should be Doing Now to Improve Efficiency and Minimize Downtime
Diminished productivity. Unplanned downtime. Delayed connection. Our world is so dependent on technology working flawlessly that the smallest hiccup in your IT environment can ruin a customer’s experience and leave a lasting impact on your brand’s reputation But don’t fear because infrastructure monitoring is here. IT infrastructure monitoring is the continuous monitoring of your [...]
Disaster Recovery: How to Prepare Your Critical Systems Before Disaster Strikes (Infographic)
What happened to Texas' power grid during Winter Storm Uri last week serves as a stark reminder that we must always be prepared for the unexpected. While the vast majority of us in the technology world will never experience an infrastructure failure the size of Texas, even the largest companies and organizations can underestimate [...]
4 Solutions for Employers to Fill Tech Jobs Faster
Despite the setbacks and uncertainty many organizations continue to face during the COVID-19 pandemic, technology jobs remain in high demand particularly in areas of cybersecurity, architecture and software development. As companies continue to adjust to the rapid shifts in technology brought on by the pandemic, employers must also adjust their recruiting habits to quickly [...]
How Odyssey’s Incident Management Software Detects Network Anomalies and Minimizes Costly Downtime
The average cost of unplanned downtime is $5,600 per minute or $300,000 per hour, according to survey study by Gartner. Those numbers should be alarming for every business, especially companies operating in a retail environment that rely on their systems to complete hundreds or thousands of credit card transactions every day. Even after the [...]