> [IBM] is spending $1.2 billion to build cloud computing centers around the world to lure foreign customers who are sensitive about the location of their data.
IBM et al are still American companies, and until they're immune to American legislation (ie: FISA Section 702) then no-one will touch them with a fifty-foot ethernet cable. The location of the data is irrelevant.
The US Government will not budge on this issue, and they will happily throw the entire tech industry under the bus. Bailing out Silicon Valley and nationalizing as much as possible is very appealing, too.
I'm a little surprised this wasn't emphasized in the article. It doesn't matter where the equipment is: the us government can still secretly force you to backdoor it and lie to your customers and the press about it.
For that there is the solution to create a company branch legally indipendent from the main one, so all the assets linked to it would be under the legislation of the state in which they are
Didn't they lose the CIA's cloud computing contract to Amazon? How much international business are you willing to lose for the harsh US government mistress?
IBM et al are still American companies, and until they're immune to American legislation (ie: FISA Section 702) then no-one will touch them with a fifty-foot ethernet cable. The location of the data is irrelevant.
The US Government will not budge on this issue, and they will happily throw the entire tech industry under the bus. Bailing out Silicon Valley and nationalizing as much as possible is very appealing, too.