Virginia offered record tax breaks to attract data centers in 2020
Saving data center companies $110m this year alone
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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
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Indonesia’s data center industry protests data localization reform
Claiming it will threaten data sovereignty and benefit foreign companies
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Bank of Ghana brings disaster recovery site online
To meet its capacity needs and ensure compliance with international standards
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T-Systems completes 'House of Clouds' data center expansion
But waves goodbye to data trustee partnership with Microsoft
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Ulster Bank triggers debt action against brothers in data center land row
The men are said to owe €22m
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Kaspersky Lab confirms plan to build Swiss data center
But the NCSC says it won’t be lifting its ban on the anti-virus software, yet
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Microsoft, DoJ submit motions to drop Irish email case
As the CLOUD Act made the lawsuit moot
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Report: Kaspersky Lab to build Swiss data center
Followed by facilities throughout the US, Europe and Asia - all in the name of restoring trust
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Report: Microsoft to launch Azure regions in Germany, Switzerland and the UAE
’Microsoft Cloud Deutschland’ project with T-Systems doesn’t seem to have worked out
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IBM files lawsuit against Microsoft's chief diversity officer
For allegedly violating non-compete agreement through her extensive knowledge of IBM’s diversity strategy
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Tech companies come out in support of CLOUD Act put before US Senate
Stating that the legislation, if enacted, would provide an up-to-date framework to deal with data seizure requests
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UK introduces cyber security directive, potential fines of up to £17m
The EU Network and Information Systems directive became EU law last year, giving member states until May 2018 to implement it
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23 amicus briefs filed with US Supreme Court in Microsoft's Irish email lawsuit
Looking to influence the final decision in a case that’s been running since 2013
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DoJ: Data seizure requests should be aimed at enterprise, not cloud providers
Microsoft calls new legal guidelines “a win for cloud and enterprise customers”
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EU Commission clarifies data protection policy for Microsoft’s Ireland case
To ensure European rules are well understood ahead of US DoJ ruling next year
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DoJ issues new guidelines for government access to customer data
Microsoft “taking steps” to drop case against US government following the federal policy update
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Microsoft rolls out DoD-cleared government cloud service
Helped along by a new subdivision: Azure Government Secret
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Instinet will move to Interxion's London facility to comply with MiFID II
Supplying all customers with 250m fiber cables between their own equipment and firm’s servers
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Citizen data always stored in own data center, says Indian ID authority
Agency responds to claims that personal information had been shared with foreign firms
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UK Department for Digital puts forward Data Protection Bill draft
Minister for Digital and Culture Matt Hancock publishes statement of intent to roll out “right to be forgotten” legislation
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Chinese websites using VPNs could be taken down, says local AWS operator
Amazon follows suit after Apple pulls 60 VPN apps from local store
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AWS is building a second GovCloud data center, US-East
The isolated cloud service conforms to highest level of US government regulations
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Dell EMC's Spanning opens Sydney data center
Company’s hybrid cloud strategy no longer hindered by legislation