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New centre: Ms Diane Greene President and CEO, VMware, and Dr Mendel Rosenblum, Chief Scientist, at a press conference in Bangalore on Monday.

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Bangalore, March 24 VMware Inc, a provider of virtualisation solutions, said on Monday it will invest $100 million in India by 2010 to expand its India-based research and development operations.

VMware’s solutions allow one computer to do the work of multiple computers by creating virtual machines that share the hardware resources without interfering with each other so that one can operate multiple operating systems and applications at the same time on a single computer.

The company, which has development centres in Bangalore and Pune in India, opened a new development centre in Bangalore and said it would double its India-based engineering staff to more than 1,000 people in the next two years. At present, VMware has over 500 developers.

The company said most of the expansion would be at the Bangalore centre, but there would be some development in the Pune centre as well. The new centre in Bangalore would support new and ongoing research and development across the company’s portfolio of solutions for datacentre and desktop virtualisation, VMware said.

Ms Diane Greene, chief executive, VMware, said, “India is also one of our fastest growing markets and where we have increasingly important system integrator partners.”

VMware said it would invest in marketing and sales as well in India. A part of the $100 million would be used for this. The company declined to comment on exact figures.

At present, the company has more than 160 channel partners in the country and offices in Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai.

On being asked if the slowdown in the US would hurt the company, Ms Greene said they make software that help people to do more with less. It frees money that can be spent elsewhere.

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