Quantum Corp, a global storage specialist in recovery and archive, announced the opening of Quantum India Development Centre (QIDC) in Hyderabad. The company has envisaged an investment of $10 million in the next 12-18 months for setting up this R&D facility to aid in faster time-to-market of new disk, software and tape solutions.
Addressing the media on this occasion, Rick Belluzzo, CEO, said that the company would continue to build newer technologies in network storage. The new centre would play a critical role in backup, recovery and archive strategy. Besides, QIDC will also allow Quantum access to world class engineering talent from the country.
Further, Belluzzo said that QIDC will play in the development of the DXi-series of disk-based backup and replication solutions. It recently announced the launch of DXi 7500 which has the data de-duplication technology. The company also introduced Scalar 50, an entry level tape library designed to provide faster, easier and reliable data protection for small and medium-sized storage environments which is ideal for the SMB segment.
With the centre in place, the company is expanding markets with branded sales from 43% to 58% besides establishing leadership in tape automation. It would also be focusing on government, financial and rich media needs for its disk-based backup replications.
