Mary-Louise Hoffman
IBM has received a U.S. patent for a new system the company built to help enterprises manage geographically dispersed cloud data in accordance with the law.
The company said Friday it designed the cloud management technique for organizations to find a location or change the place where they keep their business data.
Sandeep Ramesh Patil, an IBM inventor, said the company aims to help customers move content across multiple cloud facilities while complying with security regulations in different countries.
The invention works by marking or tagging corporate files and allows companies to store records in a specific data center through an intelligent cloud management platform, according to IBM.
IBM says it has patented thousands of approaches and technologies in areas such as cognitive computing, big data, cloud and analytics.
