{"id":9339,"date":"2013-11-04T00:28:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T00:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/nov\/04\/swisscom-sets-swiss-cloud-its-not-response-nsa\/"},"modified":"2013-11-04T00:28:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T00:28:12","slug":"swisscom-sets-up-swiss-cloud-but-its-not-in-response-to-nsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/swisscom-sets-up-swiss-cloud-but-its-not-in-response-to-nsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Swisscom sets up \u201cSwiss Cloud\u201d…but it\u2019s not in response to NSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Switzerland-based telco Swisscom is in the process of building a national “Swiss Cloud” – but denies claims that the primary motivation is around acquiring customers spooked by the NSA scandal.<\/p>\n

The story first broke on Reuters, with the news agency reporting that the move is “driven more by a desire to cut costs and make its systems more dynamic”, according to Swisscom head of IT services Andreas Koenig.<\/p>\n

Yet there’s a link to perceived security threats – given Switzerland’s stricter privacy laws, Koenig argues it would make sense for companies to store data there.  <\/p>\n

Swisscom would need a formal request from a prosecutor before giving access to stored data, and as Nick Farrell, writing for Fudzilla, notes, the system as it stands would be “useless to the spooks”.<\/p>\n

A small clue to this news came in the form of a whitepaper Swisscom published last month, which revealed that, in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Switzerland-based telco Swisscom is in the process of building a national “Swiss Cloud” – but denies claims that the primary motivation is around acquiring customers spooked by the NSA scandal.
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