Data sovereignty is on the rise across the world. Laws and regulations increasingly require that citizen data be stored in local data centers, and often restricts movement of that data outside of a country’s borders. The European Union’s GDPR policy is one example, although it’s relatively porous. China’s relatively new cloud computing law is much […]
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MongoDB launches Global Clusters to put geographic data control within reach of anyone
MongoDB‘s Atlas service has been giving companies a managed database service in the cloud for some time. Mongo deals with all the heavy lifting behind the scenes, relieving the developer of creating it all themselves. Today the company announced it was taking that a step further by allowing customers to have granular control over where […]
View More MongoDB launches Global Clusters to put geographic data control within reach of anyoneGDPR, China, and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and Google
The Great Privacy Policy Email Deluge of 2018 may have finally petered out, but we are just starting to build an understanding of who the winners and losers will be in this newly regulated data economy. Most of the attention so far has been focused on the losers post-GDPR, which can be broadly summarized as […]
View More GDPR, China, and data sovereignty are ultimately wins for Amazon and GoogleBox expands Zones to manage content in multiple regions
When Box announced Zones a couple of years ago, it was providing a way for customers to store data outside the U.S., but there were some limits. Each customer could choose the U.S. and one additional zone. Customers wanted more flexibility, and today the company announced it was allowing them to choose to multiple zones. […]
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