The beginning of the year is when most businesses determine their annual IT budget and acquire new hardware, software, and onsite IT personnel to be used over the next twelve months. Rather than hire onsite IT personnel, however, businesses can outsource the management of their IT infrastructure to an IT service provider Los Angeles and the way to do this is by signing up for the IT service provider’s managed services. Technically, managed services is a comprehensive set of IT services that includes monitoring, fixes and repairs, IT security, and disaster recovery; in the end, though, signing up for managed services is basically the same thing as hiring an IT service provider Los Angeles to continually manage and maintain a business’s complete IT infrastructure. Some of the benefits of outsourcing the management of an IT infrastructure to an IT service provider include: