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PUNE: Symantec Corporation is eyeing the management product line as an emerging growth area and has committed investments and work in its India center for the same.
The new line of management products is what Symantec has recently expanded into from Storage Foundation. This line enables multiple server functionalities vis-à-vis the erstwhile single server availability on core storage products.
Currently 92 people are working on the line from India, “Indian operations are contributing to this product development. In July we released the first version of management foundation along with the 5.0 version of Storage foundation. We are awaiting customer feedback subsequent to which, later versions will be rolled out,” said Robert Soderbery, senior vice president, Storage Foundation Group, Data Center Management, Symantec.
The next version is expected by mid of 2007. Soderbery revealed that the overall strategy ahead would be to enable service management and process management which will be a salient factor in the management product line.
The company has five development facilities in Pune that, in addition to some outsourced work handles 50 per cent of global development for Symantec. The headcount here will be scaled up from 2000 people this month to 2,500 people by this fiscal’s end. Possibility of looking at another city for its development work near Pune is also ripe for next year.
Talking about the portfolio gaps plugged through the Veritas acquisition he cited configuration management products through Relicor acquisition in Quarter 1 and Veritas provisioning manager from Gareva as significant enrichments to Symantec’s product basket, “The most successful of them all has been the enterprise vault management messaging product, which allows for smart storage, scanning and indexing of emails.”
He admitted that the company will continue to fill gaps more gaps in its product portfolio in future too. He also added that the company will invest more in the APJ markets and specially in India given the fast growth being witnessed here.
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