VMware has signed a multi-year initiative in order to expand its India-based research and development (R&D) operations. The initiative includes investing $100 million (4 billion Indian Rupees) in India by 2010, for a new, state-of-the-art 82,000 square foot development center in Bangalore along with doubling the company's India-based engineering organization to more than 1,000 people in the next two years.

The new development center is located in South Bangalore and includes a 4,000 square foot computer lab.

VMware president and CEO Diane Greene said in a statement that India has both an excellent technical education infrastructure and outstanding people. He noted that India is also one of their fastest growing markets where they have increasingly important system integrator partners. For these reasons, VMware is now substantively increasing its investment in India.

Expanding on existing R&D operations in Bangalore and Pune, the new Bangalore development center supports new and ongoing research and development across the company's entire portfolio of solutions for datacenter and desktop virtualization.

VMware, a global provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, entered India in 2004. Today the company has more than 300 customers and more than 160 channel partners in the country. It has offices in Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Delhi, and Mumbai.

Source: tmcnet.com