EDITOR’S QUESTION
WITH DATA
PRIVACY LAWS
LIKELY TO
BECOME MORE
RIGOROUS IN
ALL REGIONS,
MULTI-CLOUD
ADOPTION
WILL ASSIST
BUSINESSES
TO REMAIN
COMPLIANT.
processing capabilities, which is a
particularly strong feature within the
Amazon (Polly) offering. On the other
hand, the same business might need to
conduct sentiment analysis – and would
therefore benefit from tapping into IBM’s
Watson. By accessing the best in class,
EMEA businesses can place themselves
in the most favourable position for future
growth and innovation without tying
themselves into prohibitively expensive
contracts and/or fixed costs.
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Beyond the access to sophisticated
microservices, multi-cloud adoption
also enables EMEA businesses to use
the cloud providers that best suit their
data residency and data management
requirements. In South Africa, for
example, businesses will soon have to
comply with the Protection of Personal
Information Act (in addition to GDPR) and
will benefit from accessing new, locally
based data centres and cloud services.
In addition, by leveraging locally based
cloud services, South African businesses
can reap the benefits of reduced latency
for real-time workflows, data analysis
and communications.
With data privacy laws likely to become
more rigorous in all regions, multi-cloud
adoption will assist businesses to remain
compliant – while still driving access to
the specialised microservices that fuel
business innovation and agility.
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