Luxembourg (Europe)

Lots of companies have disaster recovery data centers located far from their headquarters, but Estonia is the first government to build an off-site data center in another country. The small Baltic nation will make backup copies of its critical data infrastructure and store them in Luxembourg if agreements between the two countries are reached.

The idea is that Estonia could continue operating outside its borders in the event of a war or natural disaster. Officials from Luxembourg will be barred from accessing the Estonian data, just like they would be restricted from entering another country’s embassy. “In a digital world, we have to put aside old concepts of nations’ borders,” said Gilles Feith, the head of the Luxembourg government’s IT activities, according to DW.

 

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