Dell plans to double Force 10 Networks team

The company sees opportunities in new datacenter rollouts in Asia
Dell plans to double the amount of employees selling, selling and developing the merchandise of Force10 Networks, the networking company it acquired in August, an govt said.

The increase in employees is geared towards integration of the Force10 product with completely different Dell product, and development of latest product to meet increasing demand for datacenter equipment, notably as China and a number of completely different countries in Asia invest in datacenters, Dario Zamarian, vice chairman and general manager of Dell Networking, said on Wednesday.



Force10 in San Jose, California had 750 employees at the time of the acquisition, of that regarding 450 were in analysis and development (R&D). It had regarding 200 employees in sales and selling.

In India, as an example, the company plans to double over successive twelve to eighteen months the amount of employees working on R&D around the Force10 product from this total of regarding 265 engineers.

The center in Chennai in south India came to Dell as a results of the acquisition. it's going to currently conjointly work on integration of the Force10 product with Dell's completely different product.

Dell's center in Bangalore, with regarding 700 employees, works on enterprise systems and software, also because the Dell Virtual Integrated System style, said Rudramuni B., govt director and head of Dell India R&D center. Integration ought to be planned right from the merchandise style level, he said.

Integration of the Force10 product with Dell's own PowerConnect networking product and completely different equipment is significant for the company, as a result of it holds that a key profit it'll deliver to datacenter and {different|totally completely different|completely different} customers is also a whole stack that has hooks and smoother interoperability between totally different Dell product in networking, storage, and servers.

The Force10 operating system (FTOS) might supply one operating system for the Force10 and PowerConnect product, Zamarian said. PowerConnect switches, as an example, already auto-detect EqualLogic arrays. Dell acquired EqualLogic, a provider of space for storing networks (SANs), in 2008.

Dell tries to strike a careful balance between organic investments and acquisitions of companies, as a results of the "time to assemble the right assets for our customers is now", Zamarian said. Developing one issue from scratch can typically take time, he added.

Dell does not however arrange to invest in Fibre Channel networking technology, as a result of it expects Ethernet to produce lots of opportunities for innovation, Zamarian said. it is a relationship with Brocade for Fibre Channel networking technology.

The company sees opportunities in non-switching networking areas like network security, WAN (wide area network) optimization, load balancing, wireless LAN (local area network), and additionally the orchestration layer of the network. the company currently uses partners' product to handle these markets. If the company decides to architect variety of those technologies higher, it ought to do it in an exceedingly stronger partnership, or in-house, or through a shopping for deal, Zamarian said.