Keysight Technologies to put $14M, 250-job software development center in midtown Atlanta's Coda tower (office)

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Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Keysight Technologies (NYSE: KEYS) will invest $14 million in an Atlanta software development center and create 250 jobs.

Keysight, formerly Agilent Technologies, produces electronic measurement instruments and systems, and software and services.Atlanta competed with Silicon Valley and Seattle for the project. Keysight chose Tech Square to tap into Georgia Tech’s research and talent pool.

Keysight will eventually put the tech center at Coda, a 750,000-square-foot office tower expected to open at Tech Square in 2019. That building, which will be anchored by Georgia Tech, is targeting companies who work on Big Data technologies, and would benefit from the in-house 40,000-square-foot data center.

“We are in the process of transforming ourselves into a software-centric company,” Keysight spokeswoman Amy Flores said. “We are going to be able to combine the talent that’s coming out of (Georgia Tech’s) engineering program with our resources.”

Keysight CEO Ron Nersesian serves on Georgia Tech President G. P. “Bud” Peterson’s advisory board.

“Georgia Tech has one of the best engineering programs in the country, and its students bring with them skills and capabilities that will be a great asset to Keysight,” Nersesian noted. “We believe that the education, inquisitiveness and enthusiasm of this new team, under Keysight leadership, will incubate ideas and solutions that will fuel a wide range of next generation technology innovations.”

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[sirrob]

Nice!