VMware opens campus in Bangalore

VMware India has grown to become a strategic contributor to the company’s global innovation engine. Thus, VMware inaugurated a state-of-the-art campus in Bangalore.

The campus includes R&D, Global Support Services, World Wide Customer Operations, IT and Sales & Marketing departments under one roof promoting collaboration and innovation. VMware’s expanding operations in India are second in size only to those at the company’s Palo Alto headquarters in the U.S.

The campus represents a total investment of $120 mn. The new 438,000-sq. ft. facility in South Bangalore will play a strategic role in VMware’s global growth strategy for the mobile cloud era. This milestone is in line with the company’s commitment to invest $500 mn in India by 2017.

The new campus also features a world-class 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. Our continued support of the India government’s ‘Make-in-India’ initiative illustrates the important role this nation plays in the company’s long-term strategic global growth plans. 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 R&D team in India plays a critical role in product development in all of VMware’s strategic imperatives.