Common use of Long-term Retention Clause in Contracts

Long-term Retention. “Long-Term Retention” shall be a Resource Unit Category. One (1) Resource Unit for this Resource Unit Category shall equal one (1) gigabyte of data on a server that is protected and available to be used in recovery during the calendar month of measurement. This Resource Unit will be measured as of the last day of the applicable month for purposes of determining the Resource Unit count for such month. Long-Term Retention is counted for each gigabyte of data protected greater than thirty-one (31) days. There are two Resource Unit Categories associated with Long-Term Retention: a) Long-Term Retention Infrastructure – The hardware, software, and network used to backup the DCS Customer’s data. Measured by the number of GBs of data protected on the DCS Customer’s server. b) Long-Term Retention Services – The labor used to backup and restore the DCS Customer’s data. Measured by the number of GBs of data protected on the DCS Customer’s server.