Salesforce.com, NTT Communications announce Tokyo data center now live

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Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud computing company, and NTT Communications announced Thursday that salesforce.com’s Tokyo data center has gone live. 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 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% by salesforce.com’s North American data centers.

“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.”