CommVault to make its Hyd centre key hub

US-based CommVault Systems, a unified data management (UDM) solutions provider, has decided to make its Hyderabad development centre an important destination for its products and software solutions.

The $100-million company also feels that its city centre would help in creating intellectual property rights for its QiNetix suite of products.

Addressing a press conference to announce the company's plans and its capabilities, Alan G Bunte, executive vice-president and chief operating officer of CommVault Systems, said: "India is a strategic centre for the company and the Indian development centre will work in tandem with the US headquarters in developing products and solutions."

The company believes that over a period of time, India would get engaged with more products development and service support for the parent's 2,500 customers across the globe, he said. The US parent is also looking at a substantial investment while increasing its manpower to a sizable number from the present 10 in the next 12 months.

K V Ratna Sarma, director and head of India operations, said, "With the launch of Hyderabad centre, the company will continue to build the QiNetix best-of-breed products apart from creating IP around its UDM products."

Explaining the company's product capabilities, Anand Prahlad, vice-president (engineering and product development), said that QiNetix software is a next generation data management suite which allows customers IT department to place data on the optimum storage medium, matching cost, access and recoverability to service level requirements.

Prahlad said that unlike competitors' products consisting of a loose collection of separate point products, QiNetix suite is built on a common technology platform eliminating the need for users to build and maintain multiple back-end repositories to manage data access and availability for different business needs.