VMware continues to see India as a strategic market: VMWare COO

MUMBAI: Cloud computing and virtualization software company, VMWare continues to see India as a strategic investment market, as it look to scale up its presence in the country in the coming quarters. In a chat with ET, COO of the company Sanjay Poonen said, “We continue to see this as a very important place for us… We are excited by the growth we see here…It’s an attractive place for engineering talent. We also see people who rise here and run things on their own. The number of patents is just growing and rising, acquisitions we have made are often companies that have heavy investments in India.”

The company had made a $2 billion investment in its Indian arm in 2018, which employs close to 6000 people.