[LINK] Cloud Computing Services in Australia?

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Rachel writes,

> .. as someone directly in the cone of influence of "The Cloud", and as
> one that watches restructures end people's careers on a seemingly more
> common basis, is that it is being used as an, "operational reason" for
> the reduction of onshore IT jobs and outsourcing of systems admins ...


Yes Rachel. And my sympathies to all our ICT professionals who are going
to loose jobs as a result of 'off-shore cloud' restructuring. For one eg,
here in the Philippines IBM is currently waging massive newspaper, radio
and TV advertising campaigns for call-centre workers. The Philippines is
probably the world's biggest call-centre base-country, because generally
english and ICT skills are great, and, wages are around $Au300 per month.
Also the net is often surprisingly fast. For example, the ads below show
IBM is currently offering 267+ such positions here in the Phils. Imho it
would be a *good time* for Australia to get serious re Cloud computing.

 
https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/search_results.jsp 

 ibm.com/jobs > Jobs at IBM > Search results:   267 vacancies match your
 query.  Search criteria: Asia-Pacific, Philippines

and,

http://www-07.ibm.com/employment/ph/job/index.html
http://www-07.ibm.com/employment/ph/ep/chartcareer.html
http://www.facebook.com/myIBM?sk=app_7146470109

and,

http://callcentersphil.blogspot.com/2008/09/ibm-philippines.html

IBM PHILIPPINES 

IBM DAKSH BUSINESS PROCESS SERVICES PHILIPPINES INC.

In the Philippines, it is commonly referred to as IBM PHILIPPINES, which 
is actually IBM DAKSH. It is a wholly owned company of IBM Corporation 
which is a leading multi-awarded provider of BPO solutions with over 
20,000 call center employees across India and Philippines operations 
centers. 

IBM PHILIPPINES provides a variety of customer care solutions and given 
the award as "Contact Center Vendor of the Year" in Asia Pacific by Frost 
Sullivan in 2006.

IBM PHILIPPINES provide a comprehensive range of outsourced voice-based 
services (in-bound and out-bound) and back office transaction processing. 
They provide solutions in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Finance 
and Administration, and Back-office processes for multiple industry 
verticals (financial, industrial, communication services and distribution 
industries