Miro Launches Japan Data Residency Program

TOKYO, JAPAN  – 9th July 2026 – Miro, the AI Innovation Workspace for teams, today announced its Japan data residency program, enabling Japanese enterprises to keep sensitive collaboration data stored and governed within Japan's borders. The program will be of particular relevance to highly regulated industries such as government, finance, and healthcare. It follows Miro's existing data residency offerings in the European Union, Australia and the United States.

For many organizations, choosing local data residency isn't about addressing gaps elsewhere. It's a proactive architectural decision: an opportunity to align data infrastructure with their most granular internal security standards and industry guidelines. Miro's global infrastructure already meets rigorous security requirements, and the Japan data residency program builds on that foundation — giving teams an additional layer of assurance tailored to their specific governance preferences.

At the same time, managing data across borders introduces operational complexity. Transfer obligations and procurement scrutiny all add friction that slows teams down. For organizations that want the simplest, most policy-aligned path forward, keeping data in Japan removes that friction by design — not as a workaround, but as the right architecture for how they work.

Key features

• In-Region Storage: Production data, backup data, and metadata are stored within data centers in Japan, giving compliance teams clear visibility and control over data residency.
• In-Region Compute Infrastructure: Miro uses in-region compute infrastructure, whenever technically feasible, eliminating the need for off-region data transfers between different IT elements. This reduces latency, giving you fast, reliable product performance.
• Durable Production Infrastructure: The program operates with Tokyo as the primary data center and Osaka as disaster recovery, designed as a permanent region—not a temporary setup. Japan joins the EU, US, and Australia as Miro's fourth production region.

This program gives teams the infrastructure they need to collaborate with confidence, knowing that production data, backups, and metadata remain stored within the country. 

“At a moment when every organization is under pressure to move faster and make smarter decisions, shared intelligence isn't a nice-to-have. It's the difference between change management that stalls and transformation that sticks,” said Taiki Mukoyama, Head of Japan at Miro. “Miro’s shared canvas is where individual productivity becomes collective momentum. The data residency program in Japan is a significant step forward in helping customers reach their transformation goals.”

“Our customers can become 10X companies but only when teams have genuine confidence that their data is safe, their risk is managed, and they're in control,” said Mark Strande, Chief Information Security Officer at Miro. “That's what trust means to us, and it's foundational to how we've built our platform.”

With the launch of its Japan data residency program Miro continues to support enterprise customers to deliver their transformation goals. By eliminating the operational friction of cross-border data management and offering the architectural assurance that regulated organizations require, Miro enables teams in Japan's most demanding industries to move faster. Most importantly, this permanent production region signals Miro's long-term commitment to meeting the data sovereignty requirements of enterprises in key markets worldwide. Note to editors

Learn more about Miro's data residency and security practices and policies. About Miro

Miro is the AI Innovation Workspace that brings teams and AI together to plan, co-create, and build the next big thing, faster. Serving more than 100 million users across 250,000 customers, Miro empowers cross-functional teams to flow from early discovery through final delivery on a shared, AI-first canvas. With the canvas as the prompt, Miro's collaborative AI Workflows keeps teams in the flow of work, scales shifts in ways of working, and drives organization-wide transformation. Founded in 2011, Miro currently employs more than 1,600 people in 14 hubs around the world. To learn more, visit https://miro.com.

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