BrainBlog for Fiorano by Jason Bloomberg
One of the greatest challenges facing enterprise IT organizations today is data sovereignty.
Data sovereignty refers to the fact that when organizations generate, process, convert, or store data, those activities must comply with the laws of the country where they take place.
Sometimes data sovereignty applies to data residency, which refers to the requirement that data must reside in a particular jurisdiction. Sovereignty, however, is a broader notion than residency, as laws may constrain how organizations work with information beyond where they locate it.
Data sovereignty regulations have been a boon to the public cloud providers, who have each rolled out various services to meet the demand.
While these cloud-based sovereignty solutions meet the needs of some organizations, there are broader, more complex data sovereignty challenges that cloud providers are poorly suited to address.
For those organizations, implementing a proper architecture for data sovereignty is essential – as is implementing a global infrastructure that complies with such an architecture.
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