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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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