Data sovereignty is a major issue for many major companies, especially in Europe.
So far, Google G Suite, which includes products like Gmail, Google Docs and Sheets, didn&t give users any control over where their data was stored at rest, but that changing today.
As the company announced at its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, G Suite users can now choose whether their primary data for select G Suite apps: in the U.S.
or in Europe.These new data regions are now available to all G Suite Business and Enterprise customers at no additional cost.&What this means is that for organizations with data- or geo-controlrequirements, G Suite will now let them choose where a copy of their data for G Suite apps like Gmail should be stored at rest,& said G Suite VP of product management David Thacker.Google is also adding a tool that makes it easy to move data to another region as employees move between jobs and organizations.&Given PwC is a global network with operations in 158 countries, I am very happy to see Google investing in data regions for G Suite and thrilled by how easy and intuitive it will be to set up and manage multi-region policies for our domain,& saidRob Tollerton, director of IT at PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, in a canned statement about this new feature.