Data Sovereignty Coming to Microsoft 365
It's been a minute, but I am back with some absolutely exciting news. Just the other day, I came across an announcement that is sure to send shockwaves through the Microsoft 365 community - the implementation of Microsoft 365 Local: Microsoft's answer to keeping your M365 data sovereign. Over the past little while, more and more companies and organizations have been pivoting towards local alternatives to Microsoft 365 as the lines between data ownership and residency are getting blurred. Given that a plethora of countries in the EU started to pull away from Microsoft 365 and Azure due to lack of control over where their data was going, Microsoft has announced Microsoft 365 Local, which gives organizations the ability to bring the best of the Microsoft 365 environment into their own environment. What does this mean for organizations? Instead of hosting the infrastructure required on servers in the cloud - companies can now opt to host the services on their own infrastructure, p...