IBM opens three new offices in India

IBM has announced the opening of three regional offices in India as part of the company's on-going geographic expansion in the country. The new offices in Dehradun, Guwahati and Raipur provide IBM with a footprint of 18 branch offices across India to date. IBM is currently focused on increasing its presence in smaller, rapidly developing Indian cities as part of its plan to establish a presence in 40 Indian cities by 2013. The company is witnessing demand for information management, security, cloud computing and business analytics solutions as businesses and government organizations turn to IT to reduce costs and gain competitive advantage. The company is also investing in the education system in these regions with a number of partnerships and academic initiatives especially to support the growth of Open Source technologies. IBM has partnered with Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT) in Guwahati. "These are dynamic times for Indian regional development and there is tremendous market potential in these cities that we are expanding into," said Nipun Mehrotra, Vice President, General Business, Geographic Expansion, IBM India/South Asia.