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US Software Giant VMware Expands Business in Bulgaria

by Sofia News Agency www.novinite.com

The US manufacturer of virtualization software, VMware, is significantly increasing the number of employees in his Bulgarian office, the company informs, cited by pari.bg. VMware has expanded its business in Sofia with the opening of a new office for an estimated 400 employees. Currently the company employees 200 Bulgarian IT specialists working on developing the infrastructure platform of its virtualization systems. VMware is yet to officially announce the number of job openings in Bulgaria, but informs a large number of interviews are ongoing. According to information on job sites, the company is looking for Software Developers in Automation, C/C++ Software Engineers, Java Front-End and Back-End Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineer - Automation, and Managers. In addition to the new office, VMware has made investments in the expansion of their data center in Sofia. The company stepped in Bulgaria in 2007, after purchasing the Bulgarian branch of Sciant. VMware say they have registered a significant increase of interest towards virtualization on the part of the Bulgarian business and hope to reach in 2010 their pre-crisis, 2008 sales levels. VMware is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a leader in Business Infrastructure Virtualization, delivering virtualization solutions—from the desktop through the datacenter. In 2009 the company has reported revenues of USD 2 B and more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners.