{"id":9413,"date":"2022-07-20T12:54:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9413"},"modified":"2022-07-20T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T12:54:15","slug":"microsoft-launches-sovereign-cloud-for-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/microsoft-launches-sovereign-cloud-for-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches &#8216;sovereign&#8217; cloud for governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft launches &#8216;sovereign&#8217; cloud for governments. Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Tuesday launched a public cloud for government customers, offering greater control over their data, and has signed up Italian defence group Leonardo (LDOF.MI) and Belgian telecoms firm Proximus (PROX.BR) as partners.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a digital transformation in many public sector organisations, and Microsoft expects to use its &#8220;Cloud for Sovereignty&#8221; to better compete with rivals such as Amazon (AMZN.O) Web Services and Alphabet\u2019s Google (GOOGL.O).<\/p>\n<p>The size of the global government cloud market is expected to reach $71.2 billion by 2027 from $27.6 billion in 2021, according to market research firm Imarc Group.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/russia-fines-google-360-mn-over-ukraine-content.html\">Russia fines Google $360 mn over Ukraine content<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do expect customers around the world &#8230; but the first few customers have been in Europe,&#8221; corporate vice president Corey Sanders said in an interview, adding that the company is conducting private previews with customers.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has been at the forefront of privacy and security legislation and its privacy watchdog launched a probe earlier this year into the public sector\u2019s use of cloud-based services to check if they comply with its privacy safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>Oth business and government customers increasingly use the data centres of big tech companies in the form of public clouds rather than building their own infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from latest tech capabilities and lower cost, Microsoft said its cloud product would fulfil obligations around data governance, security controls, privacy of citizens, data residency and other legal requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also working with other local partners to provide tailor-made clouds for local governments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft launches &#8216;sovereign&#8217; cloud for governments. Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Tuesday launched a public cloud for government customers, offering greater control over their data, and has signed up Italian defence group Leonardo (LDOF.MI) and Belgian telecoms firm Proximus (PROX.BR) as partners. The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a digital transformation in many public sector organisations, and Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[3716,126,312],"class_list":["post-9413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-technology","tag-microsoft","tag-europe","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}