CloudPassage: Microsoft Ruling to Impact U.S. Cloud Providers
August 7, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
A federal District Court judge’s ruling last week that stated Microsoft must comply with a U.S. warrant for customer data stored in a data center in Ireland could impede progress for American cloud companies hoping to continue growing their European Union accounts. The ruling, which Microsoft will be fighting, came from U.S. District Court Judge Loretta A. Preska and has to do with a narcotics investigation in which the feds are demanding access to some Microsoft customer emails stored in Ireland.
Cloud security solutionas provider CloudPassage commented on the ruling, noting it could inhibit the adoption of cloud within the European Union. "As the result of the District Court ruling last week in the Microsoft case, coupled with the NSA PRISM program, U.S. policy is having a serious negative impact on the ability of U.S. technology companies to compete in the global market for cloud-based services and infrastructure," wrote Carson Sweet, founder and CEO of CloudPassage, in a statement…
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