Salesforce.com announces Tokyo data centre

TOKYO, JAPAN: Enterprise cloud computing company Salesforce.com announced that its Tokyo data centre has gone live.

"Salesforce.com continues to expand its infrastructure to support the adoption of the social enterprise among our rapidly growing global customer base," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com. "The opening of our Tokyo data center with our trusted partner NTT Communications represents a long-term commitment to our customers across Japan and Asia Pacific."

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Housed in NTT Communications' data center facility, the Tokyo data center will support adoption of salesforce.com's social enterprise services among the company's growing customer base across Japan and Asia Pacific.

The Tokyo data center is backed up by salesforce.com's North American data centres.

"NTT Communications is proud to be the data center services provider supporting the global enterprise cloud computing services of salesforce.com," said Sadao Maki, senior executive vice president and member of the board at NTT Communications. "We have established a trusted relationship with salesforce.com providing global network services as well as Salesforce over VPN."