Is Switzerland turning into a cloud-haven in the wake of Prism scandal?
July 5, 2013
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.
First it was a money-haven, now Switzerland’s privacy laws and data protection regulations are turning it into a cloud-haven in the wake of US government surveillance revelations. That is the claim by Switzerland’s biggest offshore hosting company, Artmotion.
Recent leaks of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) PRISM surveillance programme have sparked growing concern over data privacy, with implications for global corporations using US-controlled cloud services, such as AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Azure. As a result, businesses are now turning to Switzerland for their data hosting needs. Artmotion has witnessed a 45% growth in revenue amid this new demand for heightened privacy…
Huge growth
The “huge” growth in hosting demand is because privacy in Switzerland is enshrined in law. As the country is outside of the EU, it is not bound by pan-European agreements to share data with other member states, or with the US. Before Prism, the US was at the forefront of the cloud computing industry and companies flocked to take advantage of the scalable benefits of hosting in a cloud, as well as the potential cost savings it offered…
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