One of the announcements Marc Benioff made in his Day 1 keynote here at Dreamforce was Database.com. The news is that Salesforce is now enabling its customers to store their data on their own hardware inside their data centers. There is a need -- or at least a demand -- for this capability, as many large enterprises and government institutions do not wish to send, or are prohibited from sending, their data outside of their own four walls. In some geographies, they can't let data cross national borders.
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