Carolyne Dilgard-Clark

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).