InMage opens product development centre in Hyd

California-based data continuity company, InMage Systems Inc, on Tuesday opened its product development centre in Hyderabad.

The centre will be part of the current design team of InMage and will also be responsible for developing the existing and future products. InMage India is looking at investing $2 million and employing 40 people for its Hyderabad operations by the end of December this year.

Addressing a press conference, Kumar Malavalli, chairman and chief executive officer of InMage Systems, said, "The Indian market for data continuity solutions is growing at a double-digit rate because of fear of losing information."

Data continuity covers aspects like protection and management of data that are important for business continuity.

It includes remote replication, continuous back-up, data protection, recovery management and information tiering. InMage's first product DR-Scout provides remote replication and disaster recovery solutions for structured and unstructured data.

"We provide data recovery and back-up solutions that can be used by a company at any business event level, application state, location or any storage subsystem," Malavalli said. InMage currently has around 30 customers that use its data continuity solutions.

InMage has earmarked $2 million investments for its Indian operations till December-end this year, and according to Malavalli, the company will not hesitate to invest more if required.

"Our goals for InMage India are to form a fully-integrated global engineering team in Hyderabad that contributes to all aspects of product development lifecycle and to create intellectual property (IP)," he added.

"This apart, the Indian operations can provide localised support for this region too," Malavalli said. "We will, therefore, be recruiting 40 people for the Indian operations by the end of this calender year," he added.

InMage has 20 employees at its US centre and is looking at increasing it to 30 during the same period.