Published on the 24/05/2011 | Written by Newsdesk
Cloud computer provider Salesforce has said that it will build a datacentre in Australia as fears over offshore data escalate…
Speaking in an interview with Computerworld’s Stephen Bell, Salesforce’s chief marketing officer Kendall Collins said that while the company hadn’t yet “issued a timeline”, the creation of an Australian Salesforce datacentre was certain.
That certainty does not exist for New Zealand shores however, even though some government entities, such as business directory Localist.co.nz, are currently Salesforce clients.
Collins said that government restrictions on the location of cloud operations could prove disastrous for small businesses, if international providers chose to back out of certain areas.
“Google may say [that in certain countries] you can use Gmail for personal use but no more Gmail for domains” Collins said.
“That would be a bomb for every small business in the country; they can’t afford an [in-house] Exchange server. It will stifle small business.”
The move follows rumblings that legislation could be created that would insist certain types of data are kept in the country, a move that could also assuage private companies’ fears that offshore data stores pose a risk to privacy, security and availability.
