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Indeed - although the Microsoft vs US gov nonsense regarding Ireland is really the US gov taking their own cloud businesses out and shooting them, because it ma
by fidotron 12y ago
Indeed - although the Microsoft vs US gov nonsense regarding Ireland is really the US gov taking their own cloud businesses out and shooting them, because it makes no difference where the data is if the operating company is HQed in the US.
That said, I wouldn't be so naive as to trust any government not to be attacking cloud providers, but it's important for companies making decisions to understand the jurisdictions their data will end up being regulated by.
- thrownaway2424 12y agoYou'd also have to be pretty naive to think that the german intelligence apparatus isn't out there actively attacking and subverting cloud datacenters. Google formerly operated datacenters in Munich, Frankfurt, and Berlin, but they're all shut now. http://www.quora.com/How-many-data-centers-does-Google-have http://www.quora.com/How-many-data-centers-does-Google-have http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/05/15/google-data-center-faq/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/05/15/googl...