HPE prepares for spicy affair with India to churn out $1B worth of servers

HPE is planning to start manufacturing some of its high-volume servers in India, with the aim of turning out $1 billion worth of kit in the next five years. The IT infrastructure biz has linked up with Indian manufacturer VVDN Technologies to build HPE's products from that company's factory in Manesar, Haryana. HPE says it …

[Anonymous Coward]

No surprise

China is very upfront about how they plan to steal (back) any technology they can get their hands on. When you send your CAD files over there to be mass-produced, of course you immediately get a dozen no-name imitators.

I don’t know why the world didn’t shift away from them a decade ago.

[b0llchit]

Re: No surprise

The question then will be: how long before India does the same?

Oh, wait, no need to wait. They'll get right on it.

[Kev99]

Re: No surprise

Go to Amazon and look for pretty much any thing and there'll be a dozen items almost identical to each other but from different "manufacturers". Ceiling fans, radios, you name it.

[Bebu]

Seems a bit odd?

I would have thought with modern automation (robotics and ML) a corporation could build vanilla 2-4 RU servers in the US without having to employ much more than janitors, guards with the odd storeman and still get substantial subsidies and grants from all levels of US government.

All I can imagine is that India is (or will be) a major buyer of this class of servers and HP has an eye to a "buy local" requirement.

I guess it could a case of jettisoning rapidly obsolescing technology (x86_64 etc) into less developed economies.

I suppose it does also fit into the US (&AU) foreign policy initiatives to draw India into their, possibly peculiar, vision for the Indo-Pacific.

Will be interesting to see whether Dell has similar plans.