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Is Salesforce.com’s DRO the first step to a private option?



Posted by: Barney Beal
Cloud computing, Salesforce.com, private cloud

At its annual Dreamforce event, Salesforce.com announced its plans to offer a Database Rights Option for customers, allowing customers to store some of their data in their own data center while still accessing Salesforce.com.

I caught up with ThinkStrategies’ Jeff Kaplan to discuss what it means for the SaaS market and the possibility of Salesforce.com offering a hybrid deployment of even running Salesforce.com in a company’s private cloud. 

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