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BANGALORE: Network storage solutions vendor Network Appliance which inaugurated its new Bangalore 180,000 sq ft facility today, is on a hiring spree. The company plans to ramp up its current base of 250 employees in India to 750 in a couple of years. Dave Hitz, co-founder and executive VP, Network Appliance said that the company has the option to grow further to 1200. NetApp plans to spend $150 million on capital equipment and expansion over the next two years.
Shekar Nair, president, NetApp India, said that the company would move beyond its current activities including R&D and engineering into new areas such as global corporate IT services, product partnering engineering and documentation.
The Bangalore team is part of the 1200-strong global NetApp engineering team. “While we grow our headcount at around 30 per cent at various locations, the growth rate in India is the fastest,” said Hitz. He added that the growth in India has not happened at the expense of jobs at other locations. “We have also been able to increase hiring at our locations on the East and West Coasts of the US.”
The company's entire Netcache product line was developed out of Bangalore. Nair said that the team had also developed solutions in storage management, Virtual Tape Library, data protection and enterprise data management. “Almost all solutions shipped by NetApp is touched by folks at the Indian development center,” said Louis Selincoust, VP, Offshore Operations, NetApp. Besides taking ownership for products, the team in Bangalore is also encouraged to work with other global engineering teams
NetApp leads the global Network Attached Storage(NAS) market, with a 42.6 percent market share.
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