In addition to the current EMCCentre of Excellence (COE) in Bangalore, EMC Corporation has inaugurated a second R&D centre in Pune India. The new centre in Pune expands and strengthens EMC’s presence and innovation engine within India, including plans to increase its workforce.
The additional EMC COE in Pune will help EMC to further advance its mission to help customers transform their business by creating their digital future and modernize, automate and transform IT through cloud computing. The news comes at a time when India is accelerating its journey toward digital transformation with the government’s sterling initiatives like ‘Digital India’ and ‘Smart Cities.’
“India continues to be a key sourcefor technology innovation, outstandingengineering talent and significant business potential,” said Howard Elias, President and Chief Operating Officer, Global Enterprise Services at EMC Corporation.“Indiais important toour strategic global growth plans. The EMC COE in Punewill play an important role in helping EMC deliver comprehensive, next-generation technology solutions for our customers.”
EMC’s first COEin Bangaloreopened in 2003 to advance the company’s globalization goals, accelerate R&D efforts and expand services by leveraging India’s vast pool of highlyskilled engineering talent. As EMC’s largest R&D centre outside of North America, the EMC COE in Bangalore hosts product, services and support groups across EMC’s offerings. The Pune centre will supplementthe EMC COE in Bangalore with addedcapabilities to undertake additionalR&D and Services work for cloud and storage technologies.
Congratulating EMC on inauguration on its second R&D center in Pune,R Chandrashekhar, President, NASSCOM, said,”India offers tremendous opportunities to technology companies both in terms of business potential, as well as quality talent. Indian talent is fast becoming synonymous with new technology expertise and high-end engineering. EMC’s decision to open a second world-class R&D centre in India is testimony to this.”
“This is a significant step towards accelerating our innovation efforts. Pune is fast emerging as the next technology innovation hub in India and will complement the pioneering work done by our EMC COE in Bangalore. We are confident that the new campus in Pune will help attract quality talent to help us deliver increased value to customers and partners.” said Sarv Saravanan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, EMC Centres of Excellence, Asia Pacific Japan.
The new EMC COE in Punewill have137000 square feet of usable office space and includes a state-of-the-art ExecutiveBriefing Centre.
