Salesforce.com Officially Opens Singapore Data Center to Serve Increased Global Adoption of Enterprise Cloud Computing

Salesforce.com surpassed 5,000 customers in Asia-Pacific in first quarter of fiscal 2010, including industry leaders Crocs, Pacnet, Ricoh and more Demonstrates industry leadership with major international investment in global real-time cloud computing infrastructure

SINGAPORE, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM - News), the enterprise cloud computing company, today announced that customers are adopting Salesforce CRM applications and the Force.com platform in record numbers across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

• The company 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.
• To further accelerate international expansion and adoption of enterprise cloud computing, salesforce.com's first international data center is now live in Singapore.
• 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.
• Supporting the data centre infrastructure will 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.