Dell intends to increase Force10 NX staff by one times

According to foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> Media reports, Dell Vice president and Networking department general manager Dariozamarian (Dario Zamarian) said that the company will sell, The number of employees selling and developing force NX products increased by one fold. Dell has just completed a deal to acquire force NX in August.

Dell intends to integrate the products of force 10 with its other products and to develop more new products to meet the growing demand for data center equipment in Asian countries such as China.

At the time of the acquisition by Dell, California San Jose's force 10 had about 750 employees, of whom the research and development staff were about 450, and the sales and marketing staff were about 200.

In the next 12 months to 18 months, Dell plans to increase the number of force 10 products in India from the current 265 to more than 500 people.

Force 10 Research and Development Center in the southern Indian city of Chennai will be incorporated into Dell, which will also develop how to integrate Force 10 products with other Dell products.

Dell's research and Development center in Bangalore employs about 700 people, mainly engaged in enterprise systems and software research and development. Rudramuni B, Dell Executive director and Director of India Research and Development Center, says product consolidation will start at the level of the product architecture.

Consolidating the products of force 10 with Dell's own Powerconnect networking products and other devices is important to Dell because it concerns Dell's key benefits for the data center and other customers, ensuring interoperability between Dell's networking, storage, and server products.

The Force 10 operating system (FTOS) can provide a unified operating system for Force 10 and Powerconnect products, Zamarian said. For example, the Powerconnect gateway can automatically detect the EqualLogic array.

Dell is trying to strike a delicate balance between organic investment and acquisitions, Zamarian said: "It is time for customers to integrate the right assets." He added that independent research and development would take more time.

But Dell is not going to invest in Fibre Channel networking because it sees more innovation opportunities for Ethernet. Dell maintains a cooperative relationship with Boko in the area of Fibre Channel networking.

Dell believes that there are plenty of opportunities for non-gateway networking areas such as network security, WAN optimization, load balancing, wireless LAN, and network organization layers. Now it mainly uses the products of partners to meet the needs of these markets. If the company decides to develop some technology more perfectly, it may achieve its goal through stronger cooperation, in-house research or acquisitions.