HardwareDell opens new R&D center in India

The Bangalore facility is the company's largest research and development center outside the U.S. for systems software and other enterprise products.

BANGALORE, India -- Dell Inc. inaugurated a new research and development (R&D) facility here Thursday that can house up to 1,000 staffers. The new facility is in line with Dell's plans to make India a hub for the development of enterprise products such as servers, storage and software. Dell already has 600 engineers working in Bangalore on systems software, hardware design, and validation and testing for its enterprise products. The Bangalore facility is the company's largest R&D center outside the U.S. for enterprise products, Brad Anderson, senior vice president of Dell's business product group, said Thursday. Other Dell R&D centers in Asia are in Shanghai, Taipei and Singapore. The Shanghai center focuses on desktop design, the Taipei center does notebook design, and the center in Singapore works on Dell's printing and imaging products. Starting... [ Read more on www.computerworld.com ]

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