BoF topic in more detail

Well as you can see it will be a VERY early morning for all of us. Especially after the night before. Carl Tyler was right :-)

Swan Heron room, seats 20-45, so maybe SRO will occur.

Remote admin, outsourced admin, good or bad, right or wrong, we will get to the bottom of it.

I do it, and have done it for others for years, but it usually is met with fears, doubts, costs.
You outsource your development, because you aren't afraid of backdoors?
You outsource your development, because you don't think they can get the project done on time or under budget?
You outsource your development to save money. Well maybe this one works.

And the same can be said for admin.
Maybe you need a night admin because your day staff is too busy?
Perhaps having an experienced admin handling outsourced higher level issues is required?
What if security was an issue, how could you do the outsourcing? VPN or locked down laptops are common.
Maybe you are in the middle of nowhere and relocation is not useful or there is no great crop of experienced people willing to work for under $40K with 5 years of experience. I am not saying this is low pay because for some people it is higher than they earn, but do you want to trust your security and intellectual property to someone who meets this requirement?
If your servers are in a data center/NOC some place remote from your admin, why do you make your admin go to the office? Why not outsource the remote admin already?
What is the value to you, $3,000, $5,000, $7,500, $10,000 a month?
In return what can you receive? Less downtime, quicker resolution of non-hardware issues, proactive monitoring and enhancements, cleaner NAB/Directory, more efficient leverage of your network resources, consolidation of servers, migrations to newer versions(7.0.2), training other admin.
Now look at your staff, can they do that, have they done it?
Everything I listed just now I did for my client or am finishing and the total time required is about 3-4 months(mixed environment, 3,500 users, 10-15 servers).
How's your staff?