Well, after BPO and Offshore Web Development, Offshore Software Development the next big wave of IT Industry would be economics of Infrastructure Management Services. The most profitable being the Remote Infrastructure Management which enables Organizations in US (or elsewhere in the world) to outsource their infrastructure management which may usually includes supporting Data centers activities comprising -

• Storage Support – Tivoli, EMC, etc.
• Operating System support – Linux/Unix, Windows
• Application Servers Support – IIS, Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere, Glassfish, JBoss
• Database Support – Oracle, MySQL, MS-SQL Server,etc.
• ERP Support – SAP Basis Support
• e-Mail Server Support – send mail, MS-Exchange, etc.
• End-User Support – Identity Management, Active Directory, LDAP, etc.

According to top Research firms, RIMS has a lot to contribute to the countries economy. It is estimated that RIM Services can help organizations save 60% of the costs that they are incurring NOW!

• NASSCOM – Out of India RIMS Business is $ 200-300 Million.
• RIMS Business potential estimated by TOP Research firms -
  • NASSCOM:  $ 150 Billion
  • Forrestor: $ 111 Billion
  • Gartner: $ 80 Billion

There’s a very good small presentational PDF Document published by HCL on NASSCOM Website is available for reading. You can download it from NASSCOM’s Website (or Download Directly from DT: Remote Infrastructure Management Overview – HCL).

Maples ESM, a Global IT Infrastructure Co. has already come up with a course offering in RIM, Networking, UNiX Support, SOA/Middleware Training and Mainframe Training. One of the reason of Co. doing so is McKinsey India report which says that RIMS alone would create 3.25 to 3.75 Lakh job opportunities by the year 2013 capturing $ 13-15 billion worth of share. Adding to this the best of all the features is RIMS is being considered recession proof as what VM Kumar COO, Maples ESM. He say’s …

In times of slowdown in the US, it does make sense for companies to outsource the management of existing IT infrastructure rather than pay a local engineer $16,000 as salary to do it, That way, this sector is recession proof for India as companies can postpone application development to save costs but will have to manage their IT infrastructure, which can be done less expensively by outsourcing

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