Overview
- Vembu says all Zoho products are developed in India, the global headquarters is in Chennai, and the company pays taxes in India on global income.
- He states Indian customer data is stored in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai, with an Odisha data centre planned, and says Zoho runs more than 18 data centres that host data within each jurisdiction.
- Zoho says services run on hardware it owns and internally developed frameworks atop open-source software, with product data not hosted on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
- The company uses some third-party cloud services only for regional switching nodes and is adding more points of presence to improve performance.
- Arattai will remain free, Vembu denies any government funding or political ties, and he attributes a US address on app‑store developer accounts to an early, unupdated registration.