Microsoft sets up data centers in Germany amid US surveillance concerns
Microsoft is delivering its cloud services, including Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online from two new data center regions in Germany, in a move that aims to deflect customer concerns about access to their data by U.S. surveillance.
The data centers, located in Magdeburg and Frankfurt am Main, will be unusual in that control over the data will not be with Microsoft but with Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, which will be acting as a data trustee for Microsoft's customers' data.
Access to customer data stored in these new data centers will be under the control of T-Systems, and Microsoft will not be able to access the data without the permission of customers or the data trustee, Microsoft said in a statement Wednesday. If permission is granted by the data trustee, Microsoft will access the data only under its supervision.
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