Sun to set up next-gen lab in Bangalore  

Priya Padmanabhan






BANGALORE: The Indian engineering center of Sun Microsystems has been doing some
prolific work in developing some of the company's key products and solutions in

the last five years of its existence in India. The center, which has over a

thousand engineers has contributed around 220 patents over the last five years.






Come December, this center, which is incidentally the second biggest hub for the
company, is all set to run on steroids! Sun is investing in a showcase lab that

would power the R&D center through utility computing and grid technologies in

Bangalore. “We are in the process of setting up a virtually managed and

consolidated data center which will have virtualization and RFID for asset

management,” said Vijay Anand, VP, India Engineering center, Sun Microsystems

India. RFID would be deployed to track and monitor the center's 3000-odd servers

and ancillary systems like storage. In addition, Anand this would also help in

STPI compliance.






He did not reveal the amount of investment going into the center.





Around 3000 sq feet of space has been allotted for the lab, which will come up
in the same building that houses the company's current engineering center in

Bangalore.






Anand said that this would be the company's first integrated next generation lab
of its kind. Sun is hoping that the lab would boost the productivity of the

engineering center. The company is also hoping to replicate this lab concept at

its R&D center in the Bay Area, USA.






Besides powering development work, the lab would also serve as a showcase for
Sun's advanced technologies for prospective customers, informed Anand.






The Indian center is doing work on various areas such as software and systems
management, Java, NAS and SAN storage software, application server, web server,

portal server, Solaris OS, to name a few.






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