Microsoft sets up data centers in Germany amid US surveillance concerns

Computerworld:  Microsoft is delivering its cloud services, including Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online from two new data center regions in Germany, in a move that aims to deflect customer concerns about access to their data by U.S. surveillance.

The data centers, located in Magdeburg and Frankfurt am Main, will be unusual in that control over the data will not be with Microsoft but with Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, which will be acting as a data trustee for Microsoft's customers' data.

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