Zoom to set up tech centre in Chennai

ZVC India, the Indian arm of US-headquartered communication platform company Zoom Video Communications, on Monday announced that it is setting up a technology centre in Chennai.

Velchamy Sankarlingam, President of Product and Engineering at Zoom said that the new Chennai technology centre is part of Zoom’s expansion plans and will supplement the existing technology center in Bengaluru, in addition to the two data centres in Mumbai and Hyderabad. The company also plans to gear up its hiring in India.

Upbeat on success
Even in a post-pandemic world, Zoom expects the current hybrid work model to continue and is offering additional products and services around its core video communication offering. The Zoom platform today has more than a thousand apps which users can integrate with its offerings. While competitors like Microsoft with Teams and Google with its Meet offerings try to elbow Zoom specially in the enterprise space, Velchamy sounds upbeat on its ability to not just take on but succeed against the behemoths.

The company which had set apart a $100 million fund to invest in start-ups is also collaborating with some Indian start-ups according to Raje but who did not disclose whether they had made any investments in India-based companies. The Hindu BusinessLine