Dell is setting up a team in Bangalore, India, to design enterprise servers and storage products, a company executive said Friday.The center will do full system design of enterprise and storage products, which will address the design of the board, the BIOS, the chassis, the system’s thermal characteristics and acoustics, and software porting, said Vivek Mansingh, country manager and director of the Dell India R&D Center.Dell, of Round Rock, Texas, already does hardware design in Asia in China, Singapore and Taiwan, but these centers are focused on other product lines of the company, Mansingh said. The center in Taiwan focuses on notebook design with some server design, the center in China does desktop design, and Singapore focuses on designing Dell’s printing and imaging products, he added.The company’s enterprise products are mainly designed in Austin, Texas. “We are not moving the work out of Austin,” Mansingh said. ” We are growing so fast as a company that we need more products, and we are expanding our engineering capabilities worldwide.” Many large multinational computer companies have software operations in India, but have not designed their main hardware there. The expertise for hardware design is available in India, but has not been utilized, Mansingh said. Dell India R&D Center is the company’s second-largest product development center, behind Austin. The center develops and tests the company’s OpenManage systems-management software and related software. The center also does performance testing and tweaking of applications, middleware, and operating systems on Dell’s server clusters, and also tests some of the company’s hardware. The center has started recruiting hardware designers in India, and expects to do its first design by next year. A dual-processor server and a storage product will be the first from the center, Mansingh said.Dell is doubling the number of engineers at the center from about 300 to about 600 in the next 12 to 18 months. Some of the new hires will be hardware designers.Dell has call-center operations in India to support its customers worldwide, and has announced plans to make its products in India.-John Ribeiro, IDG News ServiceCheck out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content brandpost Sponsored by Freshworks When your AI chatbots mess up AI ‘hallucinations’ present significant business risks, but new types of guardrails can keep them from doing serious damage By Paul Gillin Dec 08, 2023 4 mins Generative AI brandpost Sponsored by Dell New research: How IT leaders drive business benefits by accelerating device refresh strategies Security leaders have particular concerns that older devices are more vulnerable to increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks. By Laura McEwan Dec 08, 2023 3 mins Infrastructure Management case study Toyota transforms IT service desk with gen AI To help promote insourcing and quality control, Toyota Motor North America is leveraging generative AI for HR and IT service desk requests. By Thor Olavsrud Dec 08, 2023 7 mins Employee Experience Generative AI ICT Partners feature CSM certification: Costs, requirements, and all you need to know The Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) certification sets the standard for establishing Scrum theory, developing practical applications and rules, and leading teams and stakeholders through the development process. By Moira Alexander Dec 08, 2023 8 mins Certifications IT Skills Project Management Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe