Network management 'likely to be outsourced'

Network management 'likely to be outsourced' The growing demands of network management on IT mangers means 60 per cent of firms will turn to outsourcing by 2010 as a way of dealing with the work overload, it has been predicted.

According to Evelyn Hubbert, senior analyst at Forrester Research, network management is becoming ever more complicated, especially as it becomes increasingly concerned with supervision across silos such as servers, storage, security, databases and applications.

"Network management has become more than just pinging routers and checking device availability," Ms Hubbert told Computer Weekly.

"Today, it is more about getting a handle on ensuring secure, reliable service delivery across distributed networks."

The outsourcing of remote monitoring and management, telecoms management, IP telephony and managed mobility is most likely to be pursued, David Willis, vice president at insight firm Gartner, told the same publication.

One of the driving factors behind having network services operated by third parties is that it reduces the risk of buying technology which quickly becomes obsolete, he added.

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