Provider of cloud-based business software Salesforce.com is planning to build a new data center in Australia, although it is not known when or where in the country the facility will be built.

The company's CEO Marc Benioff told about the plans to the news service The Australian. "It's not an 'if' for us, it's a 'when'," he said about the plans for an Australian data center. "We are currently evaluating when we are going to put a data center in Australia."

For the size of its customer base, Salesforce.com has been operating from a relatively small data center footprint. As of March 2011, the company had more than 92,300 paying customers, according to a presentation its VP of technical operations Frank Guerrera made at the DatacenterDynamics conference in New York City that month.

The company was using 3,000 servers supported by seven production data centers, totaling about 76,000 sq ft ÔÇô a footprint Guerrera said was expanding.