BT swarms into the global cloud world with Caringo

British Telecom is setting up a cloud storage service using Caringo's Swarm object storage technology. Caringo's product is the object-based storage component of BT's Compute Storage offerings, which include storage, data protection and sharing for BT customers around the globe. With a nod to current Safe Harbour difficulties …

[Vimes]

With a nod to current Safe Harbour difficulties for customers, BT says its Swarm-based offering makes it "easy to host sensitive data in their country while meeting rigorous compliance regulations."

I seem to recall that any company operating in the US could be open to demands being made under US law, even when the data isn't actually located within the US. What has BT actually done that makes avoiding this 'easy'?

[Vimes]

That whole rather brief article read like a regurgitated press release by the way...