OREANDA-NEWS. December 14, 2011. Tokyo data center to support adoption of salesforce.com’s social enterprise services among growing base of customers across Japan and Asia Pacific

State-of-the-art data center delivers exceptional performance with 100 percent back-up
 by salesforce.com’s North American data centers

Multi-tenancy and eco-conscious operations leave minimal carbon footprint

TOKYO and SAN FRANCISCO-December 13, 2011-Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the enterprise cloud computing (http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/) company, and NTT Communications announced today that salesforce.com’s Tokyo data center has gone live. Housed in NTT Communications’ world-class data center facility, the Tokyo data center will support adoption of salesforce.com’s social enterprise services among the company’s rapidly growing customer base across Japan and Asia Pacific. The Tokyo data center offers customers a high-performance and environmentally sustainable cloud computing infrastructure - backed up 100 percent by salesforce.com’s North American data centers.

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"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."

"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. We are confident that the global partnership between NTT Communications and salesforce.com will enable salesforce.com to build further trust with customers and support its continued growth in Japan and throughout the region."

Salesforce.com’s Tokyo Data Center

Built according to salesforce.com’s exacting global specifications, the Tokyo data center will deliver exceptional reliability and performance for social enterprises across Japan and Asia Pacific. In addition, combining salesforce.com’s highly efficient, multitenant cloud computing architecture with NTT Communications’ eco-conscious operations, the Tokyo data center boasts a minimal carbon footprint. Salesforce.com places a premium on data management efficiency and environmental sustainability, supporting more than 100,000 customers worldwide with approximately 3,500 servers.

The Social Enterprise Revolution

A social revolution is taking place today. The number of social networking users has surpassed e-mail users, and people access the Internet more from mobile devices than from desktops. Salesforce.com is helping companies meet the challenge of this social revolution with its social enterprise strategy. Today, companies must change the way they collaborate, communicate and share information with customers and employees to stay competitive. By leveraging salesforce.com’s social, mobile and open cloud technologies, companies can transform themselves into social enterprises by developing social profiles of customers, creating employee social networks and building customer and product social networks.