Data residency: What is it and why it is important?

Data residency is a hot topic, especially for cloud data. The reason is multi-faceted, but the focus has been driven by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which governs information privacy in the European Union and the European Economic Area. The GDPR defines the requirement that users’ personal data and privacy be adequately protected by […]

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VMware Explore Barcelona 2023: Enhanced Private AI and Sovereign Cloud Services Announced

VMware’s Private AI platform will include interoperability with Intel, IBM’s watsonx and Kyndryl. Continue reading VMware Explore Barcelona 2023: Enhanced Private AI and Sovereign Cloud Services Announced

With Hyperforce, Salesforce lets you move your data to any public cloud

For much of its existence, Salesforce was a cloud service on its own with its own cloud resources available for its customers, but as the company and cloud computing in general has evolved, Salesforce has moved some of its workloads to other clouds like AWS, Azure and Google. Now, it wants to allow customers to […] Continue reading With Hyperforce, Salesforce lets you move your data to any public cloud

Deploy a Cloud WAF & DDoS Solution While Complying with Australian Data Sovereignty

Australia has strict data sovereignty laws in place to ensure that personal customer data remains within the country’s borders. However, we often hear about cloud-based WAF vendors being unable to guarantee that data will not be moved across bord… Continue reading Deploy a Cloud WAF & DDoS Solution While Complying with Australian Data Sovereignty

Box expands Zones to manage content in multiple regions

When Box announced Zones a couple of years ago, it was providing a way for customers to store data outside the U.S., but there were some limits. Each customer could choose the U.S. and one additional zone. Customers wanted more flexibility, and today the company announced it was allowing them to choose to multiple zones. […] Continue reading Box expands Zones to manage content in multiple regions

Office 365 Multi-Geo Solves Data Sovereignty but not Network Problems

Microsoft will release Office 365 multi-geo tenants to general availability in early 2018. You can then deploy Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, and (later) SharePoint Online across multiple Office 365 datacenter regions. It’s good for data sovereignty, but won’t solve network problems.

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Lurking Challenges for Teams and Planner

Teams and Planner are excellent examples of new functionality that Microsoft can create using the toolkit of parts that exist within Office 365. The two applications have excited and delighted customers since their announcement, but the applications are not yet complete. Some challenges exist that Microsoft really needs to take on to round out functionality and capabilities.

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