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Ari Chazanas is the founder and CEO of Lotus West Properties, a property management and investment firm based in West Los Angeles. As the CEO of a property management company in Los Angeles, I've ...

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When a mission-critical application experiences an outage or severe performance degradation, the pressure on the agency and its information technology (IT) contractors to find and fix the problem ...