At its Future Decoded event in London – the second of its kind – Nadella took to the stage to talk up his cloud vision.
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The Redmond, Washington-based company in 2014 said it would start letting overseas customers opt to have their personal data stored outside the United States, in response to concerns about alleged government surveillance and spying.
“You need to be able to bring people together in networks that are no longer confined to organisational hierarchy”.
Microsoft is working to a timeframe of “late 2016” for the opening of the new facility, which will be at an as yet undisclosed location.
Cathriona Hallahan, MD, Microsoft Ireland said: “We are delighted to share details of further expansion of the Irish based data centre during our year of celebrations marking our 30th anniversary of investing in Ireland”.
The company is boasting “world-class reliability and performance to government organisations, regulated industries and other businesses”, and it says new opportunities for “innovation and local growth” will manifest as a result of the data centre provision. The company will start to offer Microsoft Azure and Office 365 from local United Kingdom data centres in late 2016 with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online following shortly after. Whether it’s Azure, Office 365 or Dynamics CRM Online, thousands of United Kingdom businesses and organizations – such as Confused.com, Glasgow City Council, Marks & Spencer, Natural Resources Wales, Pizza Hut Restaurants and Virgin Atlantic – are saving money while empowering their employees and staff to collaborate and be more productive and secure anywhere, any time and on any device.
Microsoft said that it has also completed the most recent expansion of its Ireland site and that its data centre facility in Middenmeer, the Netherlands, is now operational.
Mr Nadella said Microsoft was “building out cloud infrastructure that will fuel the next generation of cloud computing”.
Microsoft has expanded its data centre facility in Dublin for the third time, as part of a multi billion euro investment in its facilities here.
The whole of the public sector stand to benefit from having local access to the cloud services, not just Whitehall, he added.
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On the basis that Safe Harbour “denies supervisory authorities their powers where a person calls into question whether the decision is compatible with the protection of the privacy”, the court invalidated the agreement – raising questions over the potential impact on authority data protection.
