HYDERABAD: Adaptec India Pvt. Ltd., a Hyderabad based provider of high-speed
storage networking solutions plans to aggressively scale up its facilities to
develop next generation Storage area Networking (SAN) solutions and
compatibility lab in the next calendar year. "We are going to invest about
$ 10 million for setting up the compatibility labs and high-end ASIC design
facilities at Hyderabad," said Adaptec India Pvt. Ltd. managing director,
Raghu Allamsetty.
Adaptec India's major emphasis will be to develop next generation iSCSI
(Internet Small Computer System Interface) technology based solutions and
compatibility lab across OEM platforms and operating systems. "Adaptec
India center is going to be the hub for addressing Asia pacific and Japan
markets. We are also looking forward to opening small satellite centers outside
Hyderabad if the needed," he explained.
ISCSI technology now enables new levels of information protection to
customers who could not afford similar solutions before. Currently the Indian
center employs 35 engineers and the company is planning to scale up the
operations to more than 150 employees by the end of next year.
In June 2001 Adaptec International for a consideration of $ 150 million acquired
Platys Communications. Primarily, Adaptec International has three broad
divisions- storage networking division, iSCSI and server peripheral unit and the
peripheral unit. Adaptec merged Platys with its storage networking division,
which works towards bringing storage to the Ethernet.