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Chennai June 6 The India research and development centre of the $5 billion Symantec Corporation will play a key role in the processing of its new anti virus-solution - codenamed Hamlet. Symantec will launch the solution globally in a few days, and in India this summer, according to Mr Anil Chakravarthy, Vice-President India Technical Operations, Symantec India.

The India centre will test product assurance and handle the `data leakage prevention' component of Hamlet in the two innovation centres - Pune and Chennai. The US-based security solution provider (anti-virus) set up the Chennai centre in April and plans to have around 1,000 employees in the next 24 months. In Pune, it has around 2,000 employees, he told newspersons.

Hamlet is a new application for enterprise personal computers and will have anti-virus and firewall capabilities. Symantec is upgrading its products to counter the growing security threat on the Internet. It recently launched its Norton Confidential and Security 2.0 - both security solutions. Hamlet is an extension of the enhancements, he said.

Symantec on Tuesday appointed Mr Basant Raj as the Chief Technology Officer in India to manage the company's innovation centres. He will be steering the Symantec Research Labs and Advanced Concept Group projects in India, according to a company press release.

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