Salesforce.com and HP Announce Cloud Partnership 

Salesforce.com and HP today announced a strategic partnership in cloud computing.

Salesforce.com and HP plan to create the new Salesforce Superpod, a dedicated instance in the Salesforce multi-tenant cloud, running on HP's world-class Converged Infrastructure. The companies plan to jointly develop and market the Salesforce Superpod to the world's largest enterprises. HP intends to be the first customer to be deployed on a Salesforce Superpod.

"The salesforce.com and HP partnership is a breakthrough in cloud computing," said Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, salesforce.com. "The Salesforce Superpod will allow individual customers to have a dedicated instance in the Salesforce multi-tenant cloud, powered by HP's technology and fully managed within salesforce.com's world-class data centers."