Microsoft outlines plan to store European cloud data in the EU

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Engineering work to redesign the cloud has already started, according to the company

Microsoft has pledged to allow its commercial and public sector customers in the EU to store and process the majority of their data within the Union by the end of 2022. The new programme, dubbed...

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