Gartner afirma que a localização física dos dados se tornará cada vez mais irrelevante na Era Pós-Snowden

Sydney, Australia, 2^{nd July 2014 — The physical location of data still matters, but will become increasingly irrelevant and will be replaced by a combination of legal location, political location and logical location in most organisations by 2020, according to Gartner, Inc.}

“The number of data residency and data sovereignty discussions had soared in the past 12 months, stalling technology innovation in many organisations,” said Gartner research vice president Carsten Casper. Originally triggered by the dominance of US providers on the Internet and the Patriot Act, the perceived conflict was then fuelled by revelations of unexpected surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA) made public by Edward Snowden.

“IT leaders find themselves entangled in data residency discussions on different levels and with various stakeholders such as legal advisors, customers, regulatory authorities, employee representatives, business management, and the public,” Mr Casper said. “Business leaders must make the decision and accept the residual risk, balancing different types of risk: ongoing legal uncertainty, fines or public outrage, employee dissatisfaction or losing market share due to a lack of innovation, or overspending on redundant or outdated IT.”

Gartner has identified four types of data location:

1)    Physical location: Historically, people equated physical proximity with physical control over data and security. Although everybody knows that locally stored data can be accessed remotely, the desire for physical control still exists, especially among regulatory bodies. Gartner advises organisations not to dismiss concerns about physical location, and instead balance the discussion with other types of risk.