Salesforce and HP announced a partnership at Dreamforce – calling it “SuperPod” – and essentially allowing HP to run SFDC on their own private cloud. Not sure if this will be something that can exist for other super customers (HP has 300,000 employees worldwide) but it’s certainly worth noting that the once “cloud then, cloud now, cloud forever!” company is offering this option… http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/salesforce-com-and-hp-buck-common-wisdom-of-cloud-computing/?_r=0