Dell's(NASDAQ:DELL) investment in developing its India Networking R&D as a global Centre of Excellence has come of age. The R&D Centre acquired from Force10 Networks in 2010 now has development infrastructure across Product Lifecycle Management, Marketing & Sales, Research & Development and Operations & Support, enabling it to play a key role in Dell’s complete end-to-end solutions offering for customers across the globe.
Dell’s Networking R&D Centre has global transformation projects in several domains like Servers, Networking and Storage.
Dell also recently announced the launch of its Active Fabric solutions, which had major contributions from the Chennai R&D Centre. The Solution flattens the traditional data center network architecture using high-density and low-latency fixed form-factor 10/40GbE switches that can be deployed quickly and easily while reaching to hyper scale proportions. This enables customers to plan, design, build and monitor these fabrics with unbeatable speed and efficiency, with a potential reduction in deployment times by up to 86 per cent.
“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,” said Tom Burns, Vice- President & General Manager, Dell Networking.
With skilled and qualified workforce is easily available in Chennai, the city is now home to over two-thirds of Dell’s networking global R&D human resources. The company is looking to add to its talent pool to strengthen its Chennai operations in the next few years.
