Sridhar Vembu the founder of popular Indian Saas giant Zoho recently took to social media to address what he described as “a lot of false information going around” about the company. In a long and detailed post on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), Vembu has laid down five specific points to correct the public misconceptions and also reaffirm Zoho’s values and operations. “There are questions about where Zoho is developed and where the data is hosted and who hosts it. There is a lot of false information we want to correct” wrote Vembu.In the post shared, Vembu clarified that Zoho has never received any government funding or subsidies. He also refuted the claims that Zoho was granted any laundry the Tamil Nadu government. Along with this, Vembu also stressed on the fact that Zoho is politically neutral and has no ties to any political party. Vembu concluded by highlighting Zoho’s global footprint, with offices in multiple countries, while remaining deeply rooted in India. “We are proud to be Indian and global at the same time,” he said.

Read Sridhar Vembu’s complete post here

There are questions about where Zoho is developed and where the data is hosted and who hosts it. There is a lot of false information we want to correct.1. All the products are developed in India. Our global headquarters is in Chennai and we pay taxes in India on our global income. As a global corporation headquartered in India, we have offices in over 80 countries and have a strong presence in the US which is a big market for us.2. Indian customer data is hosted in India (Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai, soon Odissa). We have over 18 data centers globally and they host the respective country or regional data. We are committed to hosting each country data in their own jurisdiction.3. All our services run on hardware we own and software frameworks we developed, on top of open source like Linux OS and Postgres database.4. We do not host our products on AWS or Azure. Arattai, specifically, is not hosted on AWS or Azure or GCloud. We use some of those services for regional switching nodes to speed up traffic but data is not stored in them. We are adding many such “points of presence” (POPs) as we speak.5. Our Zoho Developer account in the App Store and Play Store lists our US office address because the account was registered in the very early days of those stores by one of our employees in the US just to test them out. We never changed that.We are proudly “Made in India, Made for the World” and we mean it.