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US Effort to Grab Data from Microsoft in Ireland Should Frighten All Firms Using the Cloud Overseas

US Effort to Grab Data from Microsoft in Ireland Should Frighten All Firms Using the Cloud Overseas

August 21, 2015

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Does your company have staff or facilities overseas? Do you use cloud services from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, DropBox and other leading providers? Then, in all likelihood some of your data is stored overseas, because in order to reduce network latency most of the big cloud providers now operate data centers in Europe and Asia in addition to the U.S.

In the wake of the Snowden revelations, many analysts predicted overseas customers would become hesitant to use cloud providers subject to U.S. jurisdiction.

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