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Wipro Opens Customer Experience Center In California

By TechTaffy Desk

Wipro

Wipro has opened a new Customer Experience Center (CEC) at the company’s Mountain View offices in California. The lab is designed to showcase emerging technologies, test proof of concepts and provide live demonstrations of the company’s data center, enterprise, and cloud solutions in real-world, real-time scenarios.

The demonstration lab, leverages UCS scale out infrastructure for the SAP HANA platform, Common Platform Architecture for Big Data, and Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) from Cisco. It follows Wipro’s Bangalore CEC, India, which opened in 2012, and an Energy industry-focused CEC opened in 2013 in Houston, Texas.
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