(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Due to its record number of customers in the Asia-Pacific region adopting its customer relationship management applications and the new Force.com platform, enterprise cloud computing provider Salesforce.com (www.salesforce.com) has opened its first international data center in Singapore.
According to Salesforce’s Wednesday announcement, the new Singapore facility lets the company meet the service demands of its rapidly growing international customer base as well as extend the capacity, redundancy and scalability of its infrastructure, consisting of two North American data centers.
“CIOs and IT departments at Asia-Pacific enterprises recognize the innovation, time-to-value and ease-of-use that Salesforce delivers with cloud computing,” Salesforce international enterprise sales executive vice president Lindsey Armstrong said in a statement. “Enterprises are realizing that this is the era of cloud computing, and salesforce.com gives businesses the ability to harness the power of cloud computing to better their companies.”
Salesforce.com cloud computing applications, including the Sales Cloud and the Service Cloud, as well as the Force.com platform for developing and deploying custom cloud applications, allow customers to focus on managing their businesses – rather than managing the cost and complexity associated with software and hardware infrastructure.
The number of Asia-Pacific Salesforce customers exceeded 5,000 in in first quarter of fiscal 2010, including industry leaders Crocs, Pacnet and Ricoh.
Salesforce chairman and chief executive officer Marc Benioff said Asia-Pacific its fastest growing market, making the new data center project an obvious step in bringing enterprise cloud services to the region. “Our new Singapore data center represents continued investment in our global real-time infrastructure to accelerate customer success with cloud computing worldwide.”
Supporting the data center infrastructure will be a new network operations center headquartered in Singapore, enabling 24×7, follow-the-sun monitoring of the company’s data centers in North America and Singapore.
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