#data-residency

#data-residency

Enterprises can move from small pilots to full deployments without violating their jurisdiction's rules on where data should live. The reality is that, earlier, most security and compliance teams weren't rejecting GenAI because of model design; they were rejecting it because storing data in the US or EU pushed them into conflict with GDPR, India's incoming DPDPA norms, UAE's federal rules, or sector-specific mandates like PCI-DSS,

Across Europe and globally, organisations face rising regulatory demands, resilience expectations, and rapid tech innovation. Governments and enterprises need the cloud's power without losing control of their data. The announcement includes the commitment to the EU Data Boundary, which ensures that data processed by AI services for EU customers remains within the European Union. According to the company, this means that all customer data, whether at rest or in transit, will be stored and processed exclusively in the EU, unless customers explicitly direct otherwise.

Historically, many enterprises have avoided multicloud deployments, citing complexity in managing multiple platforms, compliance challenges, and security concerns. However, as the need for specialized solutions grows, businesses are realizing that a single vendor can't meet their workload demands. In practice, this may look like using AWS for machine learning hardware, Google Cloud for Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), or IBM's industry-specific solutions for sensitive data.

Given that corporate IT relies heavily on cloud-based infrastructure and services delivered via the public cloud, access to the data held in the cloud is paramount. Should all mission-critical data be held on-premise? What roles should digital sovereignty and digital residency play in a corporate IT strategy? These are among the questions being discussed at Forrester's forthcoming Technology & Innovation Summit in London.

"We do understand that you have sovereign obligations and we're designing our solutions so that regardless of your industry you are in control."