Pune, Feb 25: US firms that set up subsidiaries in India prefer to employ software professionals who have returned from the US as these professionals understand their work culture better, according to Jayashree Joglekar, director, Veritas Software India Pvt Ltd (VSIPL), a 100 per cent subsidiary of Veritas Software US.Veritas US had first set up operations in India in a joint venture with Frontier for its software development in 1992, but later took the core group working on the project and formed Veritas India in 1995 which began operations with R&D work. "Veritas started its operations here as software development in India costs only one-third of that in US," Joglekar said.
Joglekar, who did her masters in electronics engineering from New Jersey, worked with AT&T Bell for 10 years and later started their R&D unit in India.
Veritas US is a Nasdaq-listed company. The Indian operations had an export turnover of Rs 2.7 crore in 1997, Joglekar said, explaining that though the Indian subsidiary is not aseparate profit centre, the figure denotes the exports it achieved according to the Software Technology Park (STP). VSIPL develops on-line storage management solutions.
Traditionally, disk allocation, reconfiguration and performance tuning had to be done off-line, either by scheduling costly downtime during regular work hours or by forcing administrators to perform these tasks late at night. Its utilities enable system administrators to carry out all of these activities while on-line without disrupting users.
Today's commercial computing environments and mission-critical applications place increasing demands on open systems. To meet these requirements, Veritas Software offers Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS).
If a file system runs out of free space, users need not log off the system or stop using their files so they can be backed up and reloaded. Instead, the file system can be expanded on-line.
With the combination of the VxVM and VxFS, the system can stay up whileperforming disk and file system maintenance including growing or shrinking file systems or raw disk areas and defragmenting file systems.
Standard backups can be run during production hours without impacting availability or consistency. Most of Veritas' customers are OEMs although they have a bundled package on offer.
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