Salesforce.com opens data center in Singapore
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 16 July 2009, 18:38 IST   |    1 Comments
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Salesforce.com opens data center in Singapore
Bangalore: Salesforce.com announced the opening of its first international data center in Singapore to further speed up international expansion and adoption of enterprise cloud computing. Supporting the data centre infrastructure will be a new Network Operations Centre (NOC) headquartered in Singapore. The NOC will enable full time 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. "Our new Singapore data center represents continued investment in our global real-time infrastructure to accelerate customer success with cloud computing worldwide." The company surpassed 5,000 customers in APAC (Asia Pacific) in its first fiscal quarter of 2010, including industry leaders Crocs, Pacnet, Ricoh and more. The Singapore facility will allow 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. "We welcome the decision of Salesforce.com to locate its first data centre outside the U.S. in Singapore. This significant development will add to the richness of Singapore's Infocomm landscape, increasing the confidence of SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) in using SaaS (Software as a Service) for business productivity and contributing to our cloud computing eco-system," said Andrew Khaw, Senior Director and Group Head, Industry Development, of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. In its earnings report for the first quarter of fiscal 2010, Salesforce.com reported 36 percent revenue growth in Asia Pacific compared to the same quarter a year prior, as customers continue to adopt enterprise cloud computing to run their businesses. IT market research firm, Springboard Research, has forecast that the Asia Pacific SaaS market will reach $1.16 billion by 2010, based on a compound annual growth rate of 66 percent. By then, SaaS will comprise 15 percent of the enterprise software applications market in Asia Pacific. "SaaS is moving beyond its roots in customer relationship management into every area of the enterprise, including platforms for application development," said Dane Anderson, CEO of Springboard Research. "With all segments of the cloud computing market growing, we are seeing applications and platforms being adopted across the board by enterprises in the region and, perhaps most importantly, the enterprises we interview are very satisfied."

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