Symantec is further expanding its R&D and technical operations in the country with the inauguration of a new Centre of Innovation at Chennai.
The Centre of Innovation at Chennai was inaugurated by Thiru Dayanidhi Maran, Honorable Minister for Communications & Information Technology and John W. Thompson, chairman and CEO of Symantec.
According to Symantec, the Chennai centre will play a critical role in the development of its next generation of security and availability products and solutions for enterprises and consumers world over.
Providing a preview of the work to be done out of the Chennai Centre, Anil Chakravarthy, vice president, India Technical Operations at Symantec Corporation said, "The Chennai centre will play a significant role in developing innovative products and services across Symantec's portfolio. In the coming year, the centre will focus extensively on developing next-generation Security 2.0 products including the distinguished Norton
product line."
Maran said, "We are in an era of online collaboration and interactions, where the entire world is getting connected and touching our lives in different ways.
In this milieu, Symantec's Centre of Innovation at Chennai will play a key role in developing new solutions and enabling an environment of safe and secure computing for enterprises and consumers in India and globally."
Symantec believes that Chennai being a major commercial and industrial city with a rich talent pool, good infrastructure and excellent educational institutions, the new center will further augment their already existing R&D and engineering strengths in the country.
Furthermore, the company said that these capabilities will be used to maintain and extend the technology and product leadership globally. The focus is also to be the solution provider of choice in a rapidly 'Connected India'.
The Centre of Innovation at Chennai is Symantec's second R&D facility in the country; while the first centre is in Pune, which works on high-end product development in the security, storage, and compliance domains.
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