Brocade to invest $300 mn in India

BANGALORE: Storage and networking company Brocade has said that it would invest $300 million in India to support the company's new IP innovations in the next five years.

It also plans to advance its leadership in emerging and transformative technology areas and will add new capacity in the India operations and effectively grow its development team in India, while expanding its sales force to support market growth.

While inaugurating its Development Center in Bangalore, Brocade reaffirmed its commitment to accelerate growth in the country. The Center will play an important role in the development of networking innovations based on the new IP architecture.

“Brocade believes India is the ideal test bed for the New IP architecture as enterprises and service providers in India are receptive to open standards and are well positioned to leap directly to the New IP technologies over proprietary, legacy networking equipment,” a company said in a statement.

The Center would also work closely with Brocade technology and solution partners and networking industry thought leaders across India, enabling the company to achieve greater penetration in industry verticals such as service providers, media, banking and finance, education, and the public sector.

India is also home to the engineering teams of two recent Brocade acquisitions -- Vistapointe and Connectem -- making India a keystone in the company's overall growth plan and extending its leadership in software networking and virtualized network functions, critical technical components in New IP networks.

"Brocade is taking focused and purposeful steps in our global investment strategy with acquisitions that increase our depth in software networking, and strengthen our footprint and engineering capability in markets where we see growth potential," said Brocade CEO Lloyd Carney. "We believe India will be an early adopter of New IP technologies, and we are very excited to be in this next phase of Brocade's growth in India."

According to Gartner , the Indian data center infrastructure market, comprising server, storage, and networking equipment, will reach US$2.03 billion in 2015 -- making India the second-largest market for data center infrastructure and the second-fastest-growing market in Asia Pacific.

The new Indian Government is investing US$19 billion between 2014-18 for the " Digital India " program, with a significant spend on the network in a directive to build State Wide Area Networks (SWANs), new data centers in each state, smart cities, and a cloud-based platform to drive connectivity for all 1.3 billion citizens.

"The India market is going through a dramatic transformation with investments in private cloud, public cloud, as well as a network refresh due to the 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet adoption across the enterprise, government, and other sectors," said Edgar Dias, Regional Director for Brocade India.