Salesforce.com opens data center in Singapore

BANGALORE, INDIA: Salesforce.com, a provider in cloud computing services, recently announced the official opening of its Singapore data center, to serve increased global adoption of enterprise cloud computing services.

It also announced that customers are adopting Salesforce CRM applications and the Force.com platform in record numbers across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, said a press release.

It has surpassed 5,000 customers in APAC in its first fiscal quarter of 2010, including industry leaders Crocs, Pacnet, Ricoh and more.

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.

Along with its two North American data centres, the new Singapore facility allows the company to meet the service demands of its rapidly growing international customer base as well as extend the capacity, redundancy and scalability of its infrastructure, the release added.

Supporting the data centre infrastructure would be a new Network Operations Centre (NOC) headquartered in Singapore. The NOC enables 24x7, follow-the-sun monitoring of the company's data centres in North America and Singapore.

"Asia-Pacific is our fastest growing market, and there has never been a better time for enterprise cloud computing," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com.

He added that their new Singapore data center represents continued investment in their global real-time infrastructure to accelerate customer success with cloud computing worldwide.