{"id":35034,"date":"2018-05-17T12:33:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=4bbdf0dda94020582410eba33c7030e6"},"modified":"2018-05-17T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T12:33:10","slug":"salesforce-plans-second-uk-datacentre-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/salesforce-plans-second-uk-datacentre-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce plans second UK datacentre for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/maggie-holland\">Maggie Holland<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">17 May, 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Salesforce has announced plans to expand its UK datacentre footprint without increasing its carbon footprint, claiming its second UK facility\u00a0will run on 100% renewable energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The new datacentre will open for business in 2019, Andrew Lawson, Salesforce\u2019s executive vice president and UK general manager, confirmed this week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;I&#8217;m proud to announce our expansion in our datacentre capacity. We&#8217;re in the process of commissioning and finalising\u00a0our second UK datacentre and that will make a big difference moving forward,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe opening of our first European Innovation Centre at Salesforce Tower London [this week] and our increased datacentre capacity in the UK underscores both our partnership with UK businesses and our growth in this market,\u201d Lawson added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThese facilities will help our trailblazing customers and partners to drive innovation and connect with their customers in a whole new way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sustainability remains a key focus for the cloud CRM giant, with it achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in 2017 as well as starting to offer a carbon-neutral cloud for its customers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The new datacentre will play a big role in supporting Salesforce\u2019s growing UK business, both on the customer and partner side, according to Simon Mulcahy, Salesforce\u2019s global CMO.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cInternational is our most important growth environment. Within that it\u2019s EMEA and within that, the UK is prime. The growth here is amazing and we have incredible strategic partners such as Ulster Bank and RBS,\u201d he said during a press Q&amp;A at the company\u2019s World Tour London conference.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Such is the momentum in the UK, it\u2019s actually the second biggest Salesforce conference worldwide, with the biggest being the annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco, Mulcahy added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Maggie Holland<\/p>\n<p>        17 May, 2018    <\/p>\n<p>      Salesforce has announced plans to expand its UK datacentre footprint without increasing its carbon footprint, claiming its second UK facility\u00a0will run on 100% renewable energy.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe new datace&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35035,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35034\/revisions\/35035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}