Zoom opens data center in Singapore

Zoom Video Communications opened its first data center in Southeast Asia, in Singapore, on Tuesday.

With its latest addition, Zoom now has 18 sites globally.

The use of the company’s conferencing services has surged during the ongoing pandemic as huge numbers of people across the world work from home and use it to connect to their co-workers.

The company plans to hire more Singapore employees, including engineers and sales staff, said Abe Smith, Head of International at Zoom.

The company has come under fire recently after it was revealed by security researchers that it had rerouted some calls through its servers in China, even if those calls were placed outside China.

The company had said that this took place in “extremely limited circumstances” and it had taken its mainland China data centres off an approved list of back-ups for users outside China.