Cyber Attack At My Local CC

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Obviously, this college is just like the thousands of other organizations that thought it was OK to skimp on IT infrastructure.

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Here is UCSF, a leading hospital in the US, trying to skimp by outsourcing backups and other IT infrastructure to India.[/URL]

It's not enough to bring H1B to American soil. The real goal is to move these jobs to India permanently as part of a cloud offering for infrastructure as a service. This is why I'm no fan of those who go to school to become sysadmin/devops/network admins. Choose software engineering, security, MIS, or data analytics/data science instead.

I don't disagree with the move of IT to other countries, but I can definitely say it's not limited to operations. In my career, i've seen more development jobs go overseas than operational. Business Analyst roles are typically the positions that stay, those who type the code often do it off of spec sheets submitted by the BA with little to no interaction with the end-user in many large organizations.

I don't agree with the model, and I have voiced my concerns every time I hear it suggested, but that is the trend. From what I've seen it's not cheaper, easier or faster. It's just easy for a sales person to present in a way that makes it appear to be cheaper, easier, faster. As connected as we are, there is still a significant cost for culture differences, and a journey across the globe. Informal interpersonal communications almost always play a larger role in organizations than executives think. This link between IT and business is severed pretty abruptly in this type of outsourcing situation.