Salesforce.com and HP to offer 'Superpod' for large enterprises

November 19, 2013

Customers of Salesforce.com who want their own dedicated infrastructure within the vendor’s cloud will now be able to get one through a partnership with Hewlett-Packard. The Salesforce Superpod will be based on HP’s Converged Infrastructure hardware and jointly developed and marketed by Salesforce.com and HP. The Superpods will be hosted in Salesforce.com’s data centers and cost customers extra money, but pricing details weren’t provided Monday. HP CEO Meg Whitman will discuss the offering when she joins Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff at the start of the company’s Dreamforce conference, which gets underway Tuesday in San Francisco. HP says it will be the first customer for the Superpod. It marks a significant shift in strategy for Salesforce.com, which has historically served all its customers from its multitenant cloud, where they share an application instance with their data kept separate. The emergence of the Superpod may have been provoked by demand from large customers not fully comfortable with the multitenant delivery model. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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