Cloud Computing: Microsoft Launches Azure Data Center in Southern Brazil
June 10, 2014
Grazed from NearShoreAmericas. Author: Narayan Ammachchi.
Microsoft has launched its Azure data center in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state, promising to provide fully secured cloud computing services to Brazilian companies concerned about cyber spying. The new data center will store data within the country and provide customers with better performance through reduced latency.
Microsoft Azure, formerly Windows Azure, is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers. Internet security has become a sensitive issue in Brazil after news emerged that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) spied on its President Dilma Rousseff and the state-owned oil company Petrobras…
The construction of more data centers in Brazil is inevitable for U.S. tech firms because the South American country now insists that its websites be hosted within its borders. Microsoft has several clients for its Azure service in Brazil, including companies such as Boa Vista Servicos, SiplanControl-M, Shop Delivery and Totvs. Until few days ago, these clients were being served from its data centers inside the United States…
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