Are data localisation norms in sync with India’s Cloud vision?

NEW DELHI: As companies, as well as governments, around the world embrace Cloud computing, the growing demand for data localisation has put the service providers in a fix.

To think of it, the demand for data localisation, or asking companies to store data in servers located within the borders of a country appears to kill the very purpose of Cloud computing which makes it possible to store, manage and process data and from remote data centres via the Internet.