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Re:India’s Outsourcing Firms Change Direction as ‘Cloud’ Mov... by codeonfire on Monday July 13, 2015 @03:02AM (#9876785)
Web-based services make it difficult to bilk customers because there is no way to increase costs. The rate is fixed ahead of time. The service either works or it doesn't. There is no possibility of hardware problems, software rework, configuration issues, overbilling, etc. There are no contract negotiation or lowball bidding games (and subsequent cost overruns) either because services are pay as you go. Outsourcers will have to either invent new corporate IT products that are not provided as services yet or build competing services.
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Re:India’s Outsourcing Firms Change Direction as ‘Cloud’ Mov... by drcross on Monday July 13, 2015 @04:43AM (#9877008)
Network Engineers will rejoice at this. As the network becomes more depended upon QOS manipulation and failover link management comes to the fore.
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Re:India’s Outsourcing Firms Change Direction as ‘Cloud’ Mov... by abrookewood on Monday July 13, 2015 @07:10AM (#9877367)
Sorry, but I disagree - and my background is in networking. With AWS or Azure, no one cares about the network or servers. The only thing required is a decent link connecting you to the cloud and you are done. No one is going to hire network engineers to manage such a reduced portfolio.
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Re:India’s Outsourcing Firms Change Direction as ‘Cloud’ Mov... by toomuchtodo on Monday July 13, 2015 @03:19PM (#9880379)
What office size? 10-50 people on a managed switch? Sure. Once you start talking larger corporate footprints, you have an entire local network to manage, gear throughout a campus, SLAs to meet for local users.

Reduced portfolio. Hah!

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Re:India’s Outsourcing Firms Change Direction as ‘Cloud’ Mov... by abrookewood on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @07:49AM (#9928987)
Yeah, I was talking about small to medium sized offices. For large deployments, you'll still need network admins etc, but my point was simply that the general need for these skills is in decline.
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Re:India’s Outsourcing Firms Change Direction as ‘Cloud’ Mov... by Spooky23 on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:30AM (#9877696)
No way.

In my experience managing a very large enterprise cloud environment, the main interaction that we have with the networking teams (beyond standard NOC/ops) is dealing with self-inflicted wounds (proxy issues, etc).

I wouldn't want to be a network engineer now.

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