| The company specialises in back-up storage, recovery and archiving, and secondary storage systems for data protection of companies. |
| The Hyderabad centre will be a software R&D facility of the company in India that works on different components of software products being designed by Quantum to integrate them with data storage and protection systems. |
| The company proposes to increase the manpower of the facility to 75 engineering professionals in the next 12-18 months. |
| Rick Belluzzo, chairman and chief executive officer, Quantum, said the company would invest about $10 million in the next couple of years in the India R&D centre besides sales and marketing infrastructure. |
| "We are late in coming to India because we were largely hardware focused," Belluzzo said, adding that software was now an important part of all the storage technologies. |
| The company also considers India as an exciting market for its products and solutions besides an R&D base. It is setting up sales and marketing offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi and ramping up its call centre facility in Pune, he said. |
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