Business News....... Dell’s new research division, created 18 months ago in the US and supports all four of its business units, is now expanding its presence to India. The $62-billion PC-maker already has a sizeable research and development presence in the country with a pool of 2,500 engineers in Bengaluru and Chennai, and has produced 120 patents to date. Jai Menon, Vice-President and Chief Research Officer, Dell, who is visiting the country to set up a research team in Bengaluru and Chennai, told Business Line that he has chosen India as the next location outside the US to grow his team. “The IT talent in the country as well as the great universities here make it the right place for us to expand our presence.” Dell’s research division, created after the company was privatised, has a long range focus of 18 months to five years and delivers organic, disruptive innovation, spanning its four business units—End User Computing, Dell Services, Enterprise Solutions Group and Dell Software Group. “We establish research alliances with leading universities, and create a long-range technology outlook to help inform Dell’s strategy and product road maps. This new research division has just formalised the long history of innovation over 30 years at Dell,” Menon said. The fledgling research division’s key areas of focus are: transforming data centres, security technologies, data insights/prescriptive analytics and mobility/IoT. “Dell has democratised PCs, laptops and servers, now the research division will continue the journey of end-to-end democratisation of technology to cover cloud, big data and analytics to make it easy to adopt and accessible to even Mom ‘n’ Pop stores,” he said.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 09:58:38 +0000
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