EMC aims to tap India's surveillance market with new Bangalore lab

IT major EMC has announced the launch of a surveillance lab in Bangalore. The company said it has made a multi-year investment to form the industry’s largest, most advanced test and certification surveillance labs. The facility will help organisations to reduce the deployment risk and support requirements. The new lab will offer EMC proven solutions documentation for field sales, delivery teams and partners, Reference Architectures (RAs), white papers, technical notes and sizing guidelines, as well as technical presentations to the customers. [caption id=“attachment_41762” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Reuters[/caption] “With the government of India’s increased emphasis on the development of smart cities, safety has become a major concern for all the stakeholders. Thus, making the role of technology extremely crucial, especially surveillance technology,” EMC said. In the present scenario, video surveillance has become the largest and fastest-growing component of the physical security industry in India. Industry research released by IHS Technology forecasts the sales of video surveillance equipment to reach $26 billion in 2018, growing 2X faster than the overall IT market. “The development of dedicated surveillance lab underscores our commitment to global surveillance market as well as the customers in India and across APJ,” said Sarv Saravanan, senior vice president & general manager, EMC Centers of Excellence – Asia Pacific Japan. “As India strides towards developing smart cities, the pressure to develop cutting edge, scalable and proven security solutions is massive. EMC’s Video Surveillance lab offers the private security vendors a platform that is open, flexible, cost-effective and is analytics-ready," the company added. This is EMC’s second such facility globally after the US.