Microsoft now offers in-country data residency for core customer data

"Customer data residency provides additional assurances regarding data privacy and reliability for organisations and enterprises. Core customer data is stored only in their data centre geography, in this case, the cloud data centres within South Africa," says Paul Lorimer, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft 365.

Lillian Barnard, MD of Microsoft SA, adds: “Office 365 has, for years, been providing the foundation of digital transformation for South African businesses.”

Core data residency helps decrease core data latency, and allow for more computing resources for increased usage and data demands.

”We are excited about this announcement and so will our customers be,” says Ryan Roseveare, MD of BUI.

Existing Office 365 customers have been informed about the imminent change, while new 365 customers will have their core customer data stored at rest in the new data centre geolocations automatically.

Together with their Q4 Financials for 2019, this suggests Microsoft is on track to  deliver on their vision to provide for the increased demand from businesses for smarter collaboration and productivity, with the adoption of cloud.

To read more on the announcement, click here.