Netweb plans innovation lab in Hyderabad, manufacturing also on the cards
Hyderabad: Faridabad-based Netweb Technologies, a server manufacturer, which has been selected amongst 14 applicants under the PLI scheme for the manufacturing of IT hardware products, is looking to manufacture motherboards and other hardware products in India. To support its R&D further, the company will set up an innovation lab in Hyderabad in the next 2-3 […]
Hyderabad: Faridabad-based Netweb Technologies, a server manufacturer, which has been selected amongst 14 applicants under the PLI scheme for the manufacturing of IT hardware products, is looking to manufacture motherboards and other hardware products in India. To support its R&D further, the company will set up an innovation lab in Hyderabad in the next 2-3 months, with a 50-member team, which will be expanded further.
The company sees a potential to set up a manufacturing unit as well in Telangana besides other potential locations being Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Goa. Netweb, which will soon explore an IPO, manufactures indigenous compute and storage components by deploying large-scale scientific computing infrastructure to facilitate the growing demand.
The company offers servers, workstations, and is into storage manufacturing in India and abroad to meet the needs of businesses, government agencies, and ministries. It has also installed the fastest supercomputer in India called “Param Yuva II”.
Building capabilities
Sandeep Lodha, co-founder, Netweb Technologies, told Telangana Today in an exclusive interview, “We have planned a large facility in Faridabad (NCR), which will be commissioned within next one year. The investment could be in the range of Rs 50-60 crore. We will also set up a hardware R&D facility in India.”
He further added, “We are also planning to set up a unit in south India and Hyderabad has been identified among the potential locations. The investment could be in the range of Rs 30 crore. We are also creating an innovation lab in Hyderabad and there could be synergies due to that.”
The company, which currently has an office in Hyderabad, is creating an extension of its R&D team in the city, making it their second such facility outside their headquarters. The company has about a dozen offices in India and operations are also spread across Singapore, Indonesia, Dubai, and USA.
The company provides tech-enabled solutions such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, storage, data center & server manufacturing, virtualisation and containerisation.
Cloud-based solutions
He added, “We have added new cloud-based solutions. We are also deploying telecom cloud as the market is shifting towards 5G, which brings higher density. We have recently got into container storage as the market is shifting from virtualisation to containerisation. We are also doing several projects on big data and artificial intelligence modelling on a turnkey basis. There are also plans to get into hyper converged infrastructure cloud in the next few months.”
Netweb caters to over 10,000 clients with cloud deployment in the USA, UK, Singapore, and Australia. It has clients across Asia Pacific who use its Data Center-Disaster Recovery solutions. It serves businesses across verticals such as IT and ITeS, online retail companies, ISPs, media and broadcast, government, R&D labs, education, and oil & gas.
The company is going to come out with a subscription-based cloud service and microservices (containers), which the company calls ‘Kubyts’. Kubyts will help the high-performance computing, and AI workload deploy workload instantly and provide much denser computing while allowing the ability to run multiple applications on system, he informed.
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