Xiaomi’s Hugo Barra Says ‘We're Moving Your Data Out Of China’

In a recent Facebook post, the Chinese conglomerate Xiaomi's Vice President Hugo Barra said the company is moving its users' date out of China's cloud storage servers. In the never-ending post, Hugo said the company's global e-commerce platforms and user data of international clients are being migrated out of Beijing and moved to Amazon's AWS data centers in the U.S. and Singapore.

He also emphasised that the main reason behind migrating to a multi-site server architecture is to advance the performance of Xiaomi devices across the globe. Successfully completing the migration process will reduce latency and bring down failure rates to a great extent. In the meantime, this movement will help provide better privacy and will help in complying with region-specific data protection regulations. As Xiaomi's growth is in fast lane, this change is a high priority for the company, explains Hugo Barra in his Facebook update.

For those unfamiliar with AWS, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud-computing platform introduced way back in 2006. This service lets enterprises to rent large amount of data servers in an effortless way. Plus, it is extremely easier to rent a server than building one, according to Phone Arena.

With this server migration, Xiaomi device users are guaranteed to get better connectivity and synchronisation speeds to the cloud platforms. Hugo also pointed out that the international users in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan are already seeing an increase in speed of 30 percent. Impressively, the users in India are seeing a boost of a whopping 200 percent. Looks like, India is one of the top markets for Xiaomi. Not to forget, the company sold 40,000 Xiaomi phones in approximately four seconds, back in September.

However, not too long ago, several reports cropped up pointing to an allegation where Xiaomi was accused of helping the Chinese government by uploading personal user data of Xiaomi device users. Nevertheless, the company has denied its involvement in any such activity. The company also pointed out that the user data flow noticed by device users are merely cloud synchronisation process and not stealing date. However, it is not very clear, if Hugo decided to move the servers out of China to put the aforementioned allegation to rest.

Will you buy a Xiaomi device because the storage servers have been moved out of China? Feel free to leave a comment.

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