Microsoft announced that it will process and store all European data inside EU borders. The software giant said that this commitment will apply across all of Microsoft’s core cloud services, such as Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365.
"We are beginning work immediately on this added step, and we will complete by the end of next year the implementation of all engineering work needed to execute on it. We’re calling this plan the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud," Microsoft chief legal officer Brad Smith wrote in the official company blog.
He added that Microsoft's cloud services already comply with or exceed EU guidelines even before the new plan. "We already provide commercial and public sector customers the choice to have data stored in the EU, and many Azure cloud services can already be configured to process data in the EU as well," Smith wrote.
EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud will be powered by ongoing investments in an expansive European datacenter infrastructure. Microsoft opened their first datacenter in Europe in 2009, and their EU Data Boundary will leverage datacenters already opened or under construction in 13 European countries. In addition to customers in EU member states, customers in Norway and Switzerland will also have access to the EU Data Boundary.
Infobip Shift wants to preserve its identity as a conference shaped by the developer community rather than corporate marketing. This year’s edition gathered around 3,000 visitors, which the organisers see as the upper limit of the current Zadar format. The next stage may bring a tighter focus on specific AI topics and smaller international editions in the United States, Asia and London.
Solvership, a consulting company specializing in data, analytics, and AI solutions, has strengthened its collaboration with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, by becoming an AI Data Cloud Services Partner as part of the Snowflake Partner Network.
Google has been issued a fine of €403 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) for breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
