Microsoft announced plans today to offer cloud services including Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online from two data centers in Germany.
This follows an announcement yesterday that it also plans to develop a number of data centers in the UK and extend existing data centers in Ireland and the Netherlands.
The centers are expected to be operational late in 2016. In the case of Germany, the centers will be operated by a third-party or data trustee — in this case, T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telecom — and will serve the entire European market.
