Google to hire 300 engineers in India
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HYDERABAD:Global Internet search giant Google Inc on Thursday announced plans tohire 300 people to double its engineering headcount in India andstrengthen Hyderabad as its largest cloud computing research anddevelopment centre in the world.
The firm plans to recruit 300 engineers in couple of years to increase its presence in India with focus on cloud computing.
Peeyush Ranjan, head of engineering, Google India , told reporters herethat 300 engineers were already working in Hyderabad and Bangalore oncloud computing.
Cloudcomputing is web-based processing, whereby shared resources, software,and information are provided to computers and other devices such assmart phones on demand over the Internet.
Googlealready has cloud computing centres in Mountain View in California andNew York but the Hyderabad centre is the largest in terms of the numberof engineers working here.
Googlealready has 2,000 employees in India and the Hyderabad engineeringcentre will be core to its efforts to focus on cloud computing, he said.
Whilethe engineering centre in Bangalore is working on cloud computing aswell as search, ads, maps and news, the Hyderabad centre is focusingonly on cloud computing.
"Thework being done in these two centres are global in nature and thetechnologies they are developing are for the business globally," hesaid.
There is an administrative control panel in Bangalore which manages the business of a customer once it is up in clouds.
"Indiais a great market for cloud computing as it is the most pricesensitive. Since cloud computing ensures efficiency and betterutilization of resources, small and medium business are excited aboutit," he said.
Googlehas around three million customers in cloud computing globally. About100,000 businesses in India are already using Google's cloud computingtechnologies.