India has a scarcity of 70k networking professionals

Thursday, 25 March 2010, 23:44 IST   |    18 Comments
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India has a scarcity of 70k networking professionals
New Delhi: Networking giant Cisco estimates that India is facing a shortage of 70,000 professionals in networking alone, as datacenters increase in number and the internet expands to help businesses and homes alike. "It is high time India trains more number of networking professionals to reap benefits," Milind Gurjar, Director of Global Market Development and Training Delivery at Cisco, told Hindustan Times. According to the company, globally, the shortage of quality networking professionals is as high as one million. Gurjar said young networking professional aspirants should consider specialized courses after acquiring experience for a couple of years to tap the emerging opportunity. Cisco says, an increasing trend to outsource IT infrastructure management will only widen the shortfall in the months to come. Apart from maintaining switches and routers, networking experts also take care of security and risk management in datacenters and employ "virtualization" under which a job done by a machine can now be executed through software, enabling easier network management from remote locations. Gurjar added that in a survey conducted on CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) certified individuals reveals that these areas will be in hot demand over the next five years.

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