HP to up high end server development team in India

HP has announced plans to increase its development team in India, currently 500, which focusses on high end servers, by a few hundreds in the near future.

This move comes after HP witnessed $1 billion sales globally of such servers under the brand Integrity. During the last 18 months, HP India has sold nearly 500 of these.

Announcing details about the expansion plans, Richard Marcello, senior VP, Business Critical Servers, HP said: "HP is investing over $3 billion into our Integrity server line. This will span research and development, server and system software design, partner-led applications solutions and sales and marketing."

Globally, HP employs close to 1,500 software developers for this line of business and around 30 per cent are in India.

HP is increasingly targeting Sun clients as they feel that customers are not clear what path Sun will take in the near future.

"Sun has a good client base in the RISC server market in India and this is the replacement market we are targetting for our growth here," said Hemant Tiwari, director, Enterprise Servers & Storage, HP India.

He added that Integrity server solutions "are ideal for helping businesses seeking to set up data centre and high performance computing platform," he noted.

HP India's tie-up with Infosys for its banking product, Finacle is also reaping good benefits.

"The entire Finacle platform is built on our Integrity platform and all Financle's deployment in customer locations are on our platform. This has been a good partnership and we intend to expand this as we go forward," Tiwari highlighed.