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24 Sep 2003 03:21:00 PM |
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NetApp of US comes calling to India |
http://www.siliconindia.com/tech/tech_pgtwo.asp?newsno=20905&newscat=Technology
NetApp of US comes calling to India
siliconindia News Bureau
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
BANGALORE: The California-based Network Appliance (NetApp) has set up
a development centre in Bangalore, the first outside the US.
According to its founder & executive vice-president Dave Hitz, the
centre is a multi-functional facility to programme systems and develop
high-end technical support.
The $892m NetApp builds appliances — network-based hardware devices
designed to perform either a single or specalised set of server
functions — that help corporates store and serve data. Mr Hitz said
India will be a part of four other high-end support centres that
NetApps has across the globe.
The Indian centre will be responsible for the future software
enhancements of NetCache — a product line which improves content
delivery by storing content closer to end users, thereby eliminating
network and server bottlenecks. Hardware for this product will be
developed at Sunnyvale.
Besides the obvious cost advantage, the decision to move NetCache's
entire software engineering activity may be attributed to the India's
talent pool that India offers. NetApp is investing Rs 75 crore in its
Indian operations and is expected to grow its headcount to around 200
by end ‘05. Mr Hitz said the line between SAN (storage area network)
and NAS (network attached storage) has blurred, with corporates
incorporating both these storage technologies.
NetApp, which earlier backed NAS technology, has developed a storage
product line that works with both these technologies. Going forward,
all the company's storage offerings will be both NAS and SAN
compatible, he added. (Source: Economic Times)
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