Sovereign cloud is destination next for big technology firms

during Microsoft's global chief executive and chairman Satya Nadella’s India trip this week.

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Microsoft's Big Tech rival Google offers sovereign cloud to its clients in India.

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Microsoft's Big Tech rival Google already offers sovereign cloud to its clients in India.

“We've had Gemini models in India for a while, where the entire end-to-end data processing happens inside of Google's data centres in India,” said Mitesh Agarwal, managing director and chief technology officer for Asia-Pacific at Google Cloud, told Mint.

“We're also seeing demand for a second, extremely sensitive use case where customers do not even want the data to go out of their on-premise data centres. For this, we have a solution called Google distributed cloud, where Gemini models are provided within this hybrid secluded cloud itself,” Agarwal said.