Zoom Expands its presence in India Opens Technology center in Bangalore

Zoom has become the default video calling app for people in India. Indians are using Zoom more than Whatsapp, Skype, and similar services for video calling and video conferencing. In 2020 since the lockdown started Zoom has seen a 6700% growth in India alone. Seeing this Zoom has decided to invest more in India by opening a new technology center in Bangalore. Zoom already has an office in Mumbai which is expected to grow in size and two data centers. This new technology center in Bangalore is being opened to supplement the Zoom’s existing research and development R&D facilities in California. The company will be hiring DevOps engineers, IT, Security, and Business Operations headcount in India. 

We're excited to announce that we're expanding our presence in India by opening a new technology center in Bangalore! 🇮🇳

Read our press release for details: https://t.co/UzXqYmRLdL pic.twitter.com/otqPzCeAWY

— Zoom (@Zoom) July 21, 2020

Eric S. Yuan, CEO of Zoom said “India is a strategically important country for Zoom and we expect to see continued growth and investment here. We are proud to provide our services for free to over 2,300 educational institutions in India during the COVID-19 pandemic and look forward to continuing to work with the people and government of India hand-in-hand. We plan to hire key employees for the technology center over the next few years, pulling from India’s highly-educated engineering talent pool. This facility will play a critical role in Zoom’s continued growth.”

Velchamy Sankarlingam, President of Product and Engineering for Zoom said “Zoom is focused on providing the best-unified communications experience in the world and we are thrilled to open a technology center in Bangalore, which will be an innovation hub for our communications platform. The talent in India is truly exceptional and we are looking forward to expanding our DevOps, IT, Security, and Business Operations teams here as we scale our operations.”

In this ongoing pandemic, more and more people are working from home. Most of them are using Zoom to conduct meetings and conferences. Students as well are using Zoom to take classes online. Seeing the huge upsurge and an untapped potential market is one of the reasons Zoom is expanding in India. Zoom is going to improve its infrastructure for the Indian market. India has the largest smartphone user base in the world and most people have either used Zoom or are using it to interact with each other. This new investment in India is going to position Zoom directly against other video conferencing services like Jio Meet. Airtel India is also going to launch its own video conferencing app. It remains to be seen who comes out on top.