Four months after the presentation of its first Italian region datacenter, Microsoft Italy announces the availability of the Microsoft 365 suite, strengthening the offering of low-latency, secure, scalable and resilient local cloud services. Microsoft, through the local data center region and the new services available, further consolidates its commitment to the growth of the country and its strategic role in the digital innovation processes of public and private companies.
Microsoft suite 365, available in the Italian data center region
Currently, more than 70 organizations, across all industries and sizes, including Microsoft customers and partners, are leveraging the services offered by the new local Microsoft region datacenter.
Starting today, the Italian region, thanks to the availability of Microsoft 365, is committed to offering services data residency for the productivity tools within the Office family of web applications and gods services online fundamentals including Exchange, Sharepoint, OneDrive e Microsoft Teams.
The Microsoft 365 Advanced Data Residency add-on is therefore now also available for Italian customers and allows data migration in the Italian region. There availability of these cloud services on Italian territory – to which, among others, solutions such as Red Hat OpenShift, SAP on Azure, VMWare Solutions and Microsoft Fabric will be added in the coming months – allows Made in Italy companies to equip themselves with solutions safe and reliableenabling the residence and data sovereignty and helping to satisfy the compliance and regulatory requirements.
Microsoft suite 365, the cloud services extension
The extension of commercial cloud services on a local basis confirms Microsoft’s continued commitment to offering them to Italian companies cutting-edge digital solutions and technologies to drive and grow their businesses, reducing costs, improving efficiency and ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery.
With the Microsoft cloud, businesses can benefit from low-latency services, resilient infrastructure, and high availability of business-critical applications. business that ensure timely and continuous access to critical data, applications and workloads.
Additionally, Microsoft globally announced thepublic preview of Microsoft Cloud for Sovereigntya solution designed to enable governments to meet security, compliance and privacy requirements, while leveraging the latest cloud and AI innovations to deliver value to people living in Italy.
Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty
In Italy, the solutions offered by Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty are those on which it leverages Leonardoa company part of development consortium of the National Strategic Pole (PSN)which aims to provide a centralized, secure and compliant set of cloud services for Italian public administrations, from central bodies such as ministries, up to regional and local administrations such as healthcare companies and municipalities.
Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty enables cloud-driven innovation for governments through controls for sovereign cloud environments for customer workloads, enabling companies to leverage best practices for secure, consistent and compliant environments, while helping meet evolving local regulations.