The Storage, Networks & Computing (SNC) industry has seen phenomenal advances in the recent past like Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Global De-duplication, Continuous Data Protection, Solid State Devices, Multi Core Applications, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Gigabit networks, Terabyte disk capacities to name a few. These, coupled with advances in data-management standards and transport software, have ushered a new era of reliable, secure and easy-to-use systems.

Customers of vendors providing Storage, Networks & Computing solutions are increasingly becoming aware of technology advances thus influencing their decision to seek robust solutions. To emerge winners in this fiercely competitive scenario, vendors are forced to find solutions for facing the enormous challenges in:

• Increasing R&D efficiencies
• Reducing cost of product engineering and counter pressure on margins
• Reducing time-to-market, considering shorter product lifecycles
• Managing dynamic requirements of cross functional expertise
• Addressing consumer demands from various geographies simultaneously
• Staying ahead of competition by introducing unique products and constantly enhancing them with emerging technologies.

How Patni Can Help You
Patni’s Storage, Networks & Computing Practice has domain experts with extensive capabilities, expertise and experience to address the needs of product design, development, maintenance, verification & validation, and support for product vendors throughout the primary and secondary lifecycles. A team of highly skilled engineers proficient in leveraging Patni’s deep domain knowledge, technical competencies and mature processes along with the global delivery model, delivers hi-tech solutions and services to a host of clients across the Storage, Networks & Computing value chain.

Patni’s Storage, Networks & Computing Practice can help product vendors to:

• Introduce products faster into the market leveraging the global delivery model
• Lower cost of bill-of-material by cost driven product re-engineering
• Leverage of cross functional expertise within Product Engineering domain
• Avail of ‘one stop shop’ services for end-to-end product  lifecycle requirements
• Avail of product localization services for emerging markets using Patni’s global presence and domain experts
• Innovate with flexible revenue & risk sharing business models.

Track Record for Client Success
Patni has nurtured relationships with several leading and start-up organizations in the Storage, Networks & Computing industry, some of which include:

• US based Fortune 500 company in information infrastructure systems, software and services
• Japanese multinational corporation specializing in high-technology and services
• US headquartered Fortune 100 technology corporation
• US based electronics firm that designs ASICs, host bus adapters, RAID adapters, storage systems and computer networking products
• Subsidiary of US based multinational into development of solutions for data protection, data retention management and discovery of electronic information
• Leading innovation firm in embedded Linux commercialization
• Market leader specializing in virtualization software
• US headquartered, privately funded start-up, developing desktop virtualization products and solutions
• Mid-sized enterprise, preeminent contributor of identity aware networking solutions.