“India is a leading growth market for ServiceNow and we see larger local organizations partnering with us to benefit from the power of our platform to drive their digital innovation needs, ”said Arun Balasubramanian, managing director of India and the SAARC region. “ServiceNow is committed to managing data locally and meeting India’s data protection and sovereignty standards,” he added.
This comes as the Indian government is proposing mandatory storage and processing of certain types of user data, collected by both Indian and foreign companies, in data centers within the country’s borders. The Personal Data Protection Bill, with data localization provisions is pending in the Parliament of India.
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The California-based company also said that approximately 18,000 people will be trained and certified in India by the end of 2022 on ServiceNow products, along with partners and customers, to meet growing demand.
Also, the Indian Government granting infrastructure status to the data center industry while announcing Budget 2022-23 in February has sparked interests both from India’s real-estate players and global technology giants.
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