TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan: Pandemic has put us on new tech upcycle

BENGALURU: IT major TCS’s third quarter results announced on Friday indicated a sharp recovery from the lows in the early months of the pandemic. In an exclusive interaction with TOI after the results, TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan talked about the surge in demand for cloud. He said cloud will enable a whole new set of transformation opportunities for enterprises. Excerpts:

The revenue growth from Q2 to Q3 was TCS’s best in nine years. What does this indicate to you?

It’s a validation of many of the themes we have been speaking about for quite some time. Speaking about the pandemic, we had shared how the impact will be deep and we should be able to recover, as technology is at the heart of the solutions (for revival). Second, technology adoption at the enterprise level is now well-established and in fact, the pandemic acted as a trigger for adoption and it put us onto a new tech upcycle. The base level cloud infrastructure adoption we are seeing will enable a host of new things.