Microsoft to open first UK data centres
by Press Association from Technology | The Guardian on (#T511)
Move comes after EU declared Safe Harbour - the treaty that enabled data to be transferred to the US from Europe for storage - invalid
Microsoft is opening data centres in the UK for the first time, the company's chief Satya Nadella has announced.
The new data centres will enable users of Microsoft's cloud services, Azure and Office 365, to keep their data in the UK at all times. The announcement comes just days after Amazon, a major Microsoft rival in cloud services, confirmed they too would be building centres in the UK in 2016.
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