Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Google to add 300 engineers to Google India, focus on Cloud computing.

Google Inc, world leading search engine on 11-Nov has announced plans to recruit 300 people Google India and strengthen Hyderabad as its largest cloud computing research and development centre in the world.

Peeyush Ranjan, head of engineering, Google India, told reporters here that 300 engineers were already working in Hyderabad and Bangalore on cloud computing.

Google already has cloud computing centres in Mountain View in California and New York but the Hyderabad centre is the largest in terms of the number of engineers working here.

Google already has 2,000 employees in India and the Hyderabad engineering centre will be core to its efforts to focus on cloud computing, he said.

While the engineering centre in Bangalore is working on cloud computing as well as search, ads, maps and news, the Hyderabad centre is focusing only on cloud computing.

"The work being done in these two centres are global in nature and the technologies they are developing are for the business globally," he said.

Google has around three million customers in cloud computing globally. About 100,000 businesses in India are already using Google's cloud computing technologies

- IANS Inputs

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