Red Hat expands R&D capabilities in India

PUNE, INDIA: Red Hat, an open source solution provider, has expanded its research and development (R&D) capabilities in India. The company announced the opening of two engineering centres of excellence in Pune and Bangalore.

The Pune centre is spread over 50,000 sq.ft area located in Magapatta and is the largest engineering facility out side North America, the company claimed. However, investment details of the centre have not been disclosed. 

While Red Hat acquired Gluster, a Bangalore based open source storage firm last year, it is now converting it into a core engineering facility for open source storage technologies.  

“Pune has been an integral part of R&D for Red Hat and the centre has been centering to our global support as well as research and engineering team,” said Paul Cornmier, Red Hat’s executive vice president — Products and Technologies.

“We didn’t have R&D centre in Bangalore before, but now with Gluster we are opening our second R&D facility in India. Bangalore centre will be purely for storage R&D,” Cornmier added.

The Pune facility will work in the areas of tools development of operating system (OS) and its support along with virtualization.

The NYSE listed firm has four R&D centres in APAC region located in Australia (Brisbane), China (Beijing) and India (Bangalore, Pune).

About the company’s growth in India, Cornmier pointed out that in the last couple of years there has been huge growth as we are increasingly seeing the up take of Linux. We were the first to bring it to enterprises. Besides, the open source has been key part of cloud computing and virtualization.

LIC, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Finance and several large organizations are customers of Red Hat in India.