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Nov 19, 2024 | 
globenewswire.com | Candace Jones
Vancouver, Nov. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BC Financial Services Authority (“BCFSA”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Tolga Yalkin as its new Chief Executive Officer and Chief Statutory Officer, effective January 13, 2025. Mr. Yalkin, who will succeed Blair Morrison after announcing his retirement earlier this year, joins BCFSA from his current role leading the regulatory agenda at Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (“OSFI”).
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Candace Jones |Lisa R. Lifshitz |Carolyne Dilgard-Clark
Contracting parties typically wish to set measures of performance so that the parties can determine objectively if the vendor’s performance meets the stated expectations of the buyer, which, in turn, may lead to remedies for not meeting those expectations. However, many such performance requirements do not lend themselves to simple metrics that can be baked into a contract and managed by the lawyers and businesspeople without much outside help.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Candace Jones |Lisa R. Lifshitz |Carolyne Dilgard-Clark
IMPORTANT NOTE: This presentation quotes language from selected Amazon Web Services (AWS®), Google Cloud®, and Microsoft Azure® agreements as examples.* The presentation aims neither to promote nor criticize those cloud service providers or any of their respective products. To avoid vendor bias, the Subcommittee refers in related work product to services and legal terms offered by various cloud service providers.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Candace Jones |Carolyne Dilgard-Clark
At this point, almost every business operates some of its information technology (“IT”) assets in the cloud. Cloud‑based IT resources may be infrastructure (supplementing or replacing on‑site data centers and communications systems), platforms, or applications. Also, essential, enterprise‑level applications are now commonly licensed as subscription services maintained by third parties. Many of these third-party services also operate on IT infrastructure sourced from a cloud provider.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Candace Jones |Lisa R. Lifshitz |Carolyne Dilgard-Clark
IMPORTANT NOTE: This toolkit component uses the Microsoft Azure® site as an example. It aims neither to promote nor to criticize Microsoft or any of its products. To avoid vendor bias, the Cloud & Enterprise Technology Subcommittee (“Subcommittee”) refers in related work product to services and legal terms offered by other cloud service providers.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Candace Jones |Lisa R. Lifshitz |Carolyne Dilgard-Clark
Information technology (“IT”) operates in layers: infrastructure (hardware) on which operating systems and computing platforms are installed and application software designed to run on the underlying operating system.[1] Those layers are often referred to as the technology stack. IT systems also communicate with other IT systems, which may be internal or external to an organization, and they store and process data in various forms (information or content).
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Candace Jones |Lisa R. Lifshitz |Carolyne Dilgard-Clark
Much has been written about records management and the life cycle of records. Data have a similar life cycle. At each point in the data life cycle, an organization needs to consider its rights in the data relative to the rights and interests of third parties, as well as steps it should take to secure and control data so that they are not misappropriated or used intentionally or inadvertently in ways that are unauthorized or contrary to the organization’s policy or business interests.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Candace Jones |Lisa R. Lifshitz |Carolyne Dilgard-Clark
A wide variety of material, including data, can be sourced in marketplaces sponsored by cloud service providers (and myriad other online sources). This checklist can be used to facilitate review of data licenses in any commercial setting. In the context of a cloud provider marketplace, getting access to communicate with the data licensor for negotiation may be challenging.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Candace Jones |Carolyne Dilgard-Clark
In a perfect world, all technology vendors would present their clients with balanced legal agreements that perfectly represent the commercial deal between the parties and fully meet the client’s business and legal requirements. Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world, and experience has shown that some vendors are better than others at creating transparent and fair contracts.
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Jul 5, 2023 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Candace Jones |Lisa R. Lifshitz
This Glossary is a collection of terms and concepts related to cloud services. In practice, the terms and concepts may be used in ways that diverge from precise definitions. With that in mind, the Glos
