CloudBased Backup vs. Microsoft 365 & Google Workspace

Same collaboration tools – files, calendar, mail, chat and documents. A different answer to who owns the infrastructure your data sits on.

CloudBased Backup

European Tech

Microsoft 365 & Google

American Tech

Data Storage under EU ownership

Data is stored exclusively in EU-owned data centers

Hosted only in EU

Risk of foreign access

Open Source

Software is open source, providing full transparency

Nextcloud, auditable

Proprietary

GDPR By Design

Built to fully comply with GDPR

By design

Contractual add-ons

No US Jurisdiction

Data is protected from U.S. CLOUD Act

EU jurisdiction only

Subject to CLOUD Act

Privacy First

Privacy is prioritized, with no unnecessary data collection

No profiling

Telemetry by default

European Control

Fully operated, managed, and owned within the EU

EU-owned company

US-owned company

Secure andprivacy-firstmanaged Nextcloud.

Hosted in

Germany

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