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The group believes it ’ s often a case of mixing-and-matching different infrastructure to meet your needs . “ It could be argued that in modern IT , it ’ s not so much a decision between whether on-premises or cloud is better , but what set-up will fit with your business and its objectives ,” it states .
There is much work to do . Many corporate IT leaders say their organizations are not prepared for the future IT needs of the business and nearly all are moving to advance their transition to cloud infrastructure , according to a new IBM survey of leaders at mid-sized and large companies in the UK and US .
Of the 380 CIOs and CTOs
THE CLOUD ACT
The CLOUD Act ( Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act ) passed in 2018 regulates how US citizen and company data , that is physically stored outside the US , is handled . Those who handle US data must do so according to US laws , whose authorities can access all types of data .
Although primarily applicable to US Internet , service and cloud providers or their European branches , The CLOUD Act also applies to European customers of US companies whose data maybe processed and stored by a US company , such as Google , Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure .
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