Mark Benioff of Salesforce.com on cloud computing: efficient, cost-effective, green

“If Salesforce didn’t exist, just imagine how many servers, disc drives, etc, our 77,000 customers would have to buy,” says Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff. “Every small company would need at least one server. Big companies, like the Citibanks of the world, would need several. So, all put together (these companies) would need at least 100,000 servers.” But in its three global data centres, Salesforce has just 3,000 servers, not 100,000. “Just 3 per cent,” says Benioff. “That’s the efficiency of cloud computing.”

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Salesforce.com became the world’s first billion dollar cloud computing company in early 2009.

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