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Salesforce Bets Big on Japan, Opens Second Data Center (HITS)
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Salesforce is pushing further into Asia with a new data center. The company recently announced the opening of its second data center in Japan. The new data center will help Salesforce to reach businesses and government agencies in the country while meeting the growing demand for cloud-based services across the Asia-Pacific region.
Located in Kobe, which is in the country’s Kansai region, the newly opened facility has expanded Salesforce’s Intelligent Customer Success Platform capabilities, including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, App Cloud, Community Cloud, Analytics Cloud and more. The most interesting thing is that all of these aforementioned platforms are equipped with the company’s Einstein Artificial Intelligence (AI), launched in March this year.
Per Salesforce, Einstein enables less tech-savvy developers to build AI-powered apps quickly. “With Einstein, we are democratizing AI, enabling everyone to achieve new levels of productivity and accelerate growth, directly within the products they use every day,” Alex Dayon, President and Chief Product Officer of Salesforce, said in a press release.
The recently opened facility is Salesforce’s second data center in Japan, following the first opened in Nov 2011. Japan is one of the greatest consumers of technology, so there is significant scope for growth in the country.
