Wednesday, 4 April 2007

Symantec Expands Operations in India

Symantec has opened a new R&D Centre of Innovation at Chennai. Dayanidhi Maran, Minister for Communications & Information Technology and John W. Thompson, chairman and CEO of Symantec inaugurated the 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."

The Centre of Innovation at Chennai is Symantec's second R&D facility in the country; while the first centre is in Pune.