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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
MICROSOFT® AZURE®
The following are high level FAQs to address the launch of Legal Tracker MICROSOFT® AZURE® in the UK and what the
likely impact, if any, will be on Legal Tracker customers.
QUESTION
ANSWER
1. What is Microsoft® Azure®?
Microsoft® Azure® is a comprehensive set of cloud services that can be
used to build, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft global
network of datacentres, across 42 announced regions.
Ninety percent of Fortune 500 companies trust the Microsoft Cloud, taking
advantage of Microsoft security, privacy, transparency, and the most
compliance coverage of any cloud provider, 57 compliance offerings, and
recognized as the most trusted cloud for U.S. government institutions.
Please refer to the Microsoft® Azure® website for more information.
2. Why Microsoft® Azure®?
In 2015, Thomson Reuters announced that it would be pursuing the use of
the public cloud as a strategic infrastructure services option across the
enterprise. This enables Thomson Reuters to optimize its core
infrastructure and be more agile and responsive to customers.
Since then, Thomson Reuters has established a working group to define a
common strategy, guidelines and governance to make this a valuable
solution for the enterprise now and into the future.
The Thomson Reuters Vendor and Assurance Management team has
evaluated the top cloud service providers in the market and selected
Microsoft® Azure® after reviewing their security controls to ensure that
they are in alignment with Thomson Reuters data security policies.
3. How secure is Microsoft® Azure®?
Azure compliance offerings are based on various types of assurances,
including formal certifications, attestations, validations, authorizations, and
assessments produced by independent third-party auditing firms, as well
as contractual amendments, self-assessments, and customer guidance
documents produced by Microsoft. Azure maintains an extensive portfolio
of security, data privacy and operational control standards including SOC 1
Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27018:2014 as well as meeting country
specific requirements.
You can find out more about security and compliance offerings.
4. When will the Legal Tracker service
and data be migrated from the
The current plan is to migrate the service and data from the Thomson
Reuters UK Datacentre in early 2018.
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Thomson Reuters UK datacentre to
Microsoft® Azure®?
The date of the migration is still to be determined but we will ensure that
Legal Tracker customers receive reasonable notice as soon as the timeline
has been confirmed.
5. What will happen on the planned date
of the Legal Tracker migration from
the UK datacentre to Microsoft®
Azure® in early 2018?
The Legal Tracker service and data will be migrated from the UK
datacentre in Docklands to Microsoft® Azure® UK South instance. Prior to
the move, your encrypted data will be securely backed up. The Legal
Tracker Service will be in planned maintenance mode during the transition
and it will be resumed once the service and data is ready on the Azure
instance.
Company users will receive notification of the planned maintenance nearer
the time.
6. How will the change affect me and my
company?
In the short term, beside the planned maintenance window, all other
changes will be completely transparent to you and your company.
Your data will be available on Microsoft® Azure® UK South instance
after the planned maintenance window instead of the Thomson Reuters
Docklands datacentre and the Thomson Reuters DR instance in Fareham
will be substituted by Microsoft® Azure® UK West.
In the long term, Legal Tracker will benefit from the scalability, resiliency
and the simplification of the application’s progression by leveraging more
Azure tools in the near future.
7. How will the change impact Law
Firms?
The change will be completely transparent to Law Firms i.e. when they log
into Legal Tracker post the UK Azure launch, it will be business as usual.
8. What if we have specific questions
about Azure or the migration
process?
Please contact your Legal Tracker Customer Success Manager in the first
instance, if you have any queries.
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