VMware Inc., a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, has appointed Niranjan Thirumale as Vice-President and Managing Site Director, R&D, India.
He succeeds Niranjan Maka, who has moved to the company’s headquarters at Palo Alto, California to head VMware’s global R&D sites.
Thirumale joins VMware from EMC, where he last served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the EMC India Center of Excellence (CoE). At EMC, he led innovation across the products, solutions and services portfolio.
“India is a large location in our global R&D presence,” Maka said in a statement, adding, “ Thirumale will lead the India R&D teams and VMware aims to capitalise on the opportunities the mobile-cloud era offers us, in addition to the rich ecosystem of partners and the extended technology community in India.”
Earlier this year, VMware had inaugurated its 438,000-square foot facility in South Bengaluru with a total investment of $ 120 million, evolving the business structure to serve customers locally and globally. VMware has over 3,300 employees in India.