{"id":234,"date":"2016-09-07T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2016-09-07T12:39:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:39:32","slug":"microsoft-azure-office-365-and-the-brexit-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and the Brexit problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we knew this was coming along, the actual formal release of Microsoft Azure and Office 365 hosting in UK only data centers can be seen as a game changer in light of future Brexit strategy for most organizations with a UK presence or European presence who want to use Azure or Office 365 at scale and as devolved Cloud services in a Hybrid or dedicated Cloud strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Coupled with the recent General Data Protection Regulation which activated in May 2016 and will apply to all business from May 2018;\u00a0 Alongside this the\u00a0Privacy Shield replaces Safe Harbour complicates the matter and will force many businesses to reconsider their hosting strategies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/07\/microsoft-azure-and-office-365-now-available-from-united-kingdom-datacenters\/#sm.00009poqposp8f2d11wsmjdpkeurl\">https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/07\/microsoft-azure-and-office-365-now-available-from-united-kingdom-datacenters\/#sm.00009poqposp8f2d11wsmjdpkeurl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a game changer in hybrid hosting strategy, and can compliment any existing strategy while pushing your business towards a more compliant ready world.\u00a0 Its time to rethink where your data resides, and who with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we knew this was coming along, the actual formal release of Microsoft Azure and Office 365 hosting in UK only data centers can be seen as a game changer in light of future Brexit strategy for most organizations with a UK presence or European presence who want to use Azure or Office 365 at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johntimney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}