IBM expands research operations in India

Bangalore, Mar 20 (UNI) IBM today unveiled plans for expansion of operations at its India Research Laboratory in New Delhi, as part of which the lab, earlier located within the IIT campus, has moved to a larger facility in Vasant Kunj Institutional Area in the Capital.

The expansion was driven by growth in research activities related to IBM's Software, Services and Systems businesses, as well as client collaborations in India.

IBM Director (India Research laboratory) Dr Dan Dias, in a release here, said ''IBM Research has been in India for about ten years, and we are committed to innovation that matters for our company and for the world. This is evident from the fact that no other company has the resources committed to innovation that IBM does - US Dollar five to six billion an year invested in R and D.'' ''Innovation is what results when technical invention meets business insight. This is certainly true of IBM Research, where great importance is attached to dialogue with end-users, internal partners and customers. In addition to the profound technological insights, scientists also possess broad expertise in commercial sectors pertinent to their fields. This enables them to create innovations that really matter to clients, business and society,'' IBM Vice-President (Services Research) Robert Morris said.

The laboratory provided support to faculty and students from many institutes of higher learning, including IITs, IISc, ISB and IIMs, sponsoring faculty awards, fellowships and grants.

IBM India Research Laboratory was focused on a number of key areas, including information and knowledge management, interaction and collaboration technologies, systems management, distributed and high performance computing, software engineering, analytics and optimisations, services innovation, telecommunications research and industry solutions research.

IBM had more than doubled the number of staff it employed in India over the past two years to over 50,000 workers. The investment meant that one in six of IBM's workers was now based in India.

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