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Key definition

Data definition

What does Data mean? In legal practice, data describes information recorded in any form—especially electronically stored information (ESI)—organised or capable of being organised for a particular purpose, and capable of being processed or transmitted. It covers structured and unstructured material such as database entries, spreadsheets, emails and messaging content, documents, images, audio/video, metadata, system logs, backups and cloud-stored content. Data is not defined in the Civil Procedure Rules of England and Wales (nor generally in equivalent court rules), which instead use the broad concept of a document as anything in which information is recorded, encompassing electronic data and metadata. Statutes define data contextually: UK GDPR...

UK data centre outsourcing: security, UK GDPR, FCA/PRA, service levels, business continuity and contracting

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Practice notes

Practice Note

A Data centre is a facility that accommodates computer and communications equipment. This Practice Note addresses the following key issues:

security
Personal data
Technology
Service descriptions and service levels
Business continuity
Encryption
The supplier
Contracting issues
Ongoing management

Data centre service models

Data centre services can be delivered through different approaches, summarised at a high level:

co-location service — allows the customer to lease space in the data centre while the supplier provides the environment for the customer’s own servers. The supplier also supplies essential supporting services: safeguarding the data centre and the leased area, delivering power, and regulating humidity and temperature across the facility. The footprint may range from a single shelf in a rack, through a dedicated room or cage, to an entire floor and/or building. Space can be pre-configured (often for rack space) or customised by the supplier to the customer’s needs
fully managed...

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Lee Rubin

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Lee Rubin is a Partner in the Global Sourcing and Technology Transactions team at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. He advises on a range of commercial transactions primarily technology and complex outsourcing arrangements. He regularly advises on high value sourcing deals, whether IT or business process outsourcing, providing strategic and practical advice. He acts for both suppliers and users, works closely with clients in the financial services sector, and has spent time on secondment to a major international bank working on its regulated outsourcing arrangements. He also has extensive experience advising on software development projects, and on cloud and 'as a service' arrangements, including on related data handling and privacy issues....

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