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 Retail innovation playbook: Fast, economical transformation on Microsoft Cloud For retailers, tight integration of data and systems is the antidote to a challenging economy. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 24, 2023 3 mins Retail Industry Digital Transformation BrandPost How retailers are empowering business transformation with TCS and Microsoft Cloud AI-powered omnichannel integration and a strong, secure digital core lets retailers innovate across four primary areas while staying compliant, maintaining security and preventing fraud. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 24, 2023 4 mins Retail Industry Cloud Computing BrandPost How to Build ROI from Cloud Migration This whitepaper and webcast can help you calculate the ROI and create a business case for modernizing your legacy applications to the Microsoft Cloud. By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 24, 2023 1 min Retail Industry Cloud Computing BrandPost How to power a sustainable enterprise on Microsoft Cloud In this eBook, we’ll follow the journey of Amal Skye, a fictitious woman who is committed to living in a way that preserves the planet for the future —and how businesses like Tata Consultancy Services and Microsoft are making that possi By Tata Consultancy Services Mar 24, 2023 1 min Retail Industry Green IT 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