Salesforce.com announces its first international data centre in Singapore
ConvergenceAsia staff
27/05/2008

Salesforce.com, the market and technology leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), has announced that it is building its first international data centre in Singapore. The data centre, which is expected to go live before the end of year, will service the company’s rapidly growing international customer base.

In addition to the data centre infrastructure, salesforce.com also announced plans to establish a Network Operations Centre (NOC) in Singapore to implement 24x7, follow-the-sun monitoring of the company’s data centres in North America and Singapore. To support this, it is investing in additional facilities and headcount at its Asia Pacific headquarters.

“The decision to build our first data centre outside of the US is clear evidence that companies globally are abandoning the failed client-server software model and are looking for a new model that allow them to focus on innovation as opposed to infrastructure,” said Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com.

Salesforce.com’s Asia Pacific customer base doubled over the last 12 months. Strategic customers include AAPT, Acer, Amcor, CGU Insurance, Challenger Financial Services,
Datacraft, Flight Centre, Millipore, Ramco, Thomson Financial, Xinhua Finance, VSNL and Telecom New Zealand.

“The explosive growth that we are experiencing in Asia Pacific, combined with a highly technically literate and multi-lingual talent pool make Singapore the perfect location for our first data centre outside of the US,” added Benioff.

With this latest infrastructure, salesforce.com will be able to leverage on Singapore's comprehensive strengths as a trusted hub to deliver mission-critical software to companies world-wide, said Ko Kheng Hwa, Managing Director, Economic Development Board of Singapore.

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