Microsoft addresses privacy concerns with announcement of plans to open its first UK data centres
Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has announced plans to open the first UK data centres next year.
The move is in response to the recent EU ruling which banned the transferring of data from Europe to the US for storage.
The new data centres will allow businesses and government ogranisations using Microsoft’s cloud services- Azure and Office 365- to keep their data in the UK.
The move helps to address privacy watchdogs concerns of “data sovereignty” and adheres to privacy regulations that state that healthcare, national defence and public sector workloads data cannot leave the UK.
Speaking at the company’s Future Decoded conference in Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
