Network Management Outsourced to India

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "The latest wrinkle for outsourcing companies in India is long-distance monitoring of corporate computer networks in U.S. and Europe -- services that could be worth tens of billions of dollars, the Wall Street Journal reports. From the article: 'Growth is expected as factories become more computerized and remote services expand to include controlling plant temperatures from afar and even monitoring who enters and exits the premises. 'Theoretically,' says Azim Premji, chairman and founder of India outsourcing company Wipro Ltd., 'anything on a network can be managed remotely from India.'"

Comments

Outsourcing and Net Neutrality

[fodder69]

I wonder how companies that outsource off shore feel about net neutrality?

SNMP, then and now

[TheGratefulNet]

  PHB: "we outsourced our network management to india. but the timeouts are causing the NMS's to freak out!"

 
REPLACED EMPLOYEE: "that's So Not My Problem, anymore!"

SNMP used to stand for Saturate the Network with Mangled Packets. but I guess they won't get mangled if they take too long to get here (ever seen the actual network latency from india to the US? I have..)

(ob disc: I do SNMP for a living; close to 15 yrs now, actually. wonder how much longer there will be a need for SNMP _engineering_ here in the US? sigh.)