Dell to enhance Chennai R&D centre

BANGALORE, INDIA: Dell announced that it will enhance its Chennai R&D investments by adding 200 more employees into its technical engineering workforce in FY 2014.

The R&D centre, acquired from Force10 Networks in 2010, now has development infrastructure across product lifecycle management, marketing and sales, research and development and operations and support, says a release.

A year after announcing its intent to develop the Chennai operations as a centre of excellence and R&D hub for Dell's Networking business, the centre has already filed 37 invention disclosures as well as has deployed four products in FY13 for global customers.

Dell had recently announced the launch of Active Fabric solutions, which had major contributions from the Chennai R&D centre.

Tom Burns, vice president and general manager, Dell Networking, said: "Dell Networking was early to recognize a transformation in the data center against a backdrop of changing workload requirements, virtualization technologies and cloud architectures. We developed a strategy to deliver innovative new fabric architectures and converged solutions that fundamentally change the cost-structures of data center networking. The India R&D facility will continue to serve as an innovation hub for Dell over the next few years."