Pick a Hot Company! NetEnrich Opens New Office and NOC Delivery Center at Ann Arbor, Michigan Homepage Search CyberSurveys News Talk Sports Talk Lions Talk Wings Talk Tiger Talk Car Talk Tech Talk Horoscope Hot Sites Lottery Weather Staff Autos Joyrides Business Careers Census Columnists Commuting Detroit History Editorials Health Metro / State Livingston Macomb Oakland Wayne On Detroit Nation / World Obituaries Death Notices Politics / Govt. Real Estate Religion Schools Special Reports Technology Sports Home Lions/NFL Red Wings/NHL Pistons/NBA Shock/WNBA Tigers/Baseball MSU U-M More Colleges Golf Guide High Schools Motor Sports More Sports Scoreboards Entertainment Casino Guide Movie Finder TV Listings Crossword Homestyle home Decorating Food Gardening Home Improvement Home Life Home Tech Wine Report New center to create at least 250 new jobs SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- NetEnrich, the trusted brand in Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) services, today announced its plans to open an R&D center and Network Operations Center (NOC) in Ann Arbor, Mich. The new facility is expected to create in excess of 250 new jobs in Michigan and is planned to be operational by the end of December 2008. NetEnrich currently employs over 160 people in its offices and NOC delivery centers worldwide in California, India, Japan and the UK. "NetEnrich is extremely excited about the potential to create in excess of 250 jobs near term in Ann Arbor, Michigan," said Raju Chekuri, NetEnrich CEO. "The bigger opportunity for NetEnrich is to help American small to medium enterprises better leverage IT technology and infrastructure to be more competitive. Companies utilizing our shared services delivery center, located in Ann Arbor, can reduce 30% to 50% of their IT operations costs. These savings can be reinvested to make them more competitive and fuel innovation and growth, thus creating additional jobs." The R&D center will support product development including software development and enhancements of NetEnrich's award-winning Virtual Private Management Gateway (VPM/G). NetEnrich's Ann Arbor NOC will be staffed with IT experts to provide remote IT services to customers in North America, Japan and Europe. The new NOC will leverage NetEnrich's VPM/G technologies to deliver its services and will bring further efficiencies and economies to its shared services delivery model. NetEnrich's innovative and patented VPM/G technologies enables remote IT infrastructure management, and allows NetEnrich to significantly automate its IT management services and deliver shared services from its multiple global NOCs on a 24X7 basis. The high degree of automation increases efficiencies and ultimately drives customers' IT costs down. "When outsourcing of jobs to India and China is all the rage, NetEnrich is bucking the trend and bringing jobs back to the US," added Chekuri. "Ann Arbor, with its highly talented job pool, provides NetEnrich a strategic base to meet service delivery needs of our key customers and augment our R&D capabilities." About NetEnrich NetEnrich helps companies keep their business-critical applications and IT infrastructure running 24X7 while freeing valuable staff from mundane IT functions and allowing them to focus on strategic information analysis and business intelligence activities. NetEnrich is the trusted brand for Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM), business application support, data center management and NOC services. With R&D operations in both the U.S. and India, NetEnrich builds and delivers cutting-edge technologies that extend the frontiers of RIM and delivers immediate value to its customers. NetEnrich's patented and award-winning VPM(TM)/G technologies enables its administrators based in remote NOCs to securely monitor and manage IT infrastructure at customer sites all over the world to very strict SLAs using a shared services model with every action fully auditable in real time using a "Tivo-like" recording capability. As a result of NetEnrich, customers enjoy freedom from headaches of IT infrastructure management, while maintaining superior uptime of their infrastructure combined with the predictability of fixed monthly IT maintenance costs. NetEnrich's remote management VPM/G technology along with NetEnrich RIM services has been successfully deployed and leveraged by leading enterprises worldwide. Sports Red Wings Autos Joyrides News History Copyright 2001 The Detroit News. Use of this site signifies your agreement to the Terms of Service (updated April 17, 2000). For more information, visit http://www.netenrich.com CONTACT: Chris Joseph NetEnrich Phone: 408-436-5900 ext. 7104 E-mail: [email protected] This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information, visit http://www.ereleases.com.