VMware opens a development facility in Bangalore of $120mn

BANGALORE, INDIA: VMware has announced to invest $500 million in India by 2017. The company has also inaugurated its state-of-the-art campus in Bangalore, representing a total investment of $120 million.

With $6 bn in revenue in 2014, 500,000 customers, VMware today employs over 3,300 employees in India with 1300 employees in datacentres, a figure expected to grow by more than 16 percent by the end of 2015.

The R&D team in India plays a critical role in product development in all of VMware’s strategic imperatives – the software-defined data center, hybrid cloud and end-user computing.

The new 438,000 square foot facility in South Bangalore will play a strategic role in VMware’s global growth strategy for the mobile cloud era. VMware plans to build one cloud, any app, any device.

The new campus features a Executive Briefing Center (EBC) to showcase VMware’s entire portfolio of solutions, providing customers and partners across Asia Pacific with the opportunity to see the company’s products and services in action, and discuss them face to face with executives and engineers.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said: “Today, India represents a substantial element of our global R+D operations in the U.S., and continues to play an important role in our global growth strategy."

He added, “India may be perceived as a late adopter of new technologies, but we are seeing rapid transformation here. Customers here are enthusiastically adopting our advanced cloud infrastructure and end-user computing technologies. Our customers are transitioning to a new model of IT that is fluid, instant and secure. The customers today demand Instant, Fluid, Secure and we build these IT capabilities.”