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Building a Scalable Cloud

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Posted:: Apr 7, 2011
Published:: Jun 6, 2011
Format:: PDF
Length:: 4 Page(s)
Type:: Case Study
Language:: English

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Building a Scalable Cloud
Sponsored by: Red Hat and Dell Inc.
Salesforce.com is the leader in enterprise cloud computing services, enabling organizations to manage every part of the customer relationship without having to maintain expensive, in-house applications. But to make sure customers retained fast and continuous access to their data, Salesforce.com needs hardware that produces outstanding performance and high availability.

Read this case study to learn how Saleforce.com increased their level of performance with Dell's PowerEdge servers with AMD Opteron processors, making room for new services and customer growth.

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