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Office 365 and Dynamics go live in Australia

Apparently this will transform your business and change the world

Office 365 files may load just a little faster in Australia today, after Microsoft announced it has flicked the switch for the local version of the service.

Redmond's outpost has also decided the time is right to serve Dynamics CRM from its Australian bit barns in Sydney and Melbourne.

Like the local version of Azure, the two apps are certified to host “Unclassified Sensitive” government data, after scrutiny by the Australian Government’s Independent Registered Assessors Program.

Before Microsoft opened its local bit barns, it dismissed latency concerns by saying the extra hop to Singapore or another region wouldn't make a difference to Australians' user experience. Now it's saying, in a canned post by local MD Pip Marlow, that “The new, local services will provide even faster performance, offer geo-redundant back-up and help customers address data residency considerations, particularly in sectors such as healthcare, education, government and financial services.”

Of course others addressed the problem before: Google's famous deal with the State of New South Wales' Department of Education saw it store data on-shore in about 2006, if your correspondent's memory is correct.

Vulture South has also heard a whisper or two to the effect that while Microsoft Australia was prepping the local version of Office 365, those looking to Azure for very, very, big cloud rigs were told, gently, that they might be better off choosing another region. Perhaps that will change now that the build's complete. ®

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