Salesforce shifts software to local servers

Mumbai: Salesforce, a company that provides businesses with cloud-based applications for customer service, has moved its software to a domestic data centre. This is expected to significantly expand the market for the company in India as some regulators, like the RBI, insist on data localisation.

Speaking to TOI, Salesforce India chairperson and CEO Arundhati Bhattacharya said that the trend of moving applications to the cloud has accelerated during the pandemic. Two sectors that have made big moves towards cloud applications are edtech and financial services. Salesforce has added 1,000 employees in recent months, taking its headcount in the country to 5,000. “There used to be a mistaken notion that storing data on-premises is safer.