The Hindu : NetApp sets up tech centre

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2003

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NetApp sets up tech centre

By Anand Parthasarathy

BANGALORE APRIL 29. The U.S.-based leader in storage network solutions, Network Appliance, has set up a Bangalore-based technology operation to add engineering muscle to its current and future product development.

The facility is expected to include over 200 hardware and software engineers over 2-3 years and will help deliver the company's promise of simple — but not simplistic — computer storage solutions.

Speaking to The Hindu soon after the formal announcement, Manish Goel, newly designated President of the NetApp India Technology Operation, explained that the engineering and support functions of the company's entire `NetCache' product line would now be done globally from India. However for its future India-based development work, NetApp is now in the process of identifying relatively independent tasks within the broad framework of converging network storage technologies.

"The trend is away from very high computing platforms to a large number of Linux-based distributed platforms — and storage architectures must reflect this," Mr. Goel said.

The company has generally found its growth rate in India to be faster than global averages.

NetApp's cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer, James Lau, who was here for the launch of the new facility said India offered specific human resource skill sets that the company was keen to leverage.

It planned to invest Rs. 50-70 crores in the first phase.

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