Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply: (1) ‘enterprise data centre’ means a data centre that is operated by an enterprise, and of which the sole purpose is to deliver and manage the information technology needs of the enterprise; (2) ‘colocation data centre’ means a data centre in which one or more customers install and manage their own network or networks, servers and storage equipment and services; (3) ‘co-hosting data centre’ means a data centre in which one or more customers are provided with access to network or networks, servers, and storage equipment on which they operate their own services and applications and where both the information technology equipment and the support infrastructure of the building are provided as a service by the data centre operator; (4) ‘enterprise data centre operator’ means a physical or legal person who manages the entire enterprise data centre, including the building and the use of the information technology services delivered; (5) ‘colocation data centre operator’ means a physical or legal person who manages and sells space, security, network access, power and cooling capacity in the entire colocation data centre to one or more customers who install and manage their own network or networks, servers and storage equipment and services; (6) ‘co-hosting data centre operator’ means a physical or legal person who manages the co-hosting data centre space, security, network access, power, cooling, network or networks, servers, and storage equipment, and part of the necessary software to deliver information technology services to one or more customers, including information technology outsourcing; (7) ‘data centre operator’ means enterprise data centre operator, colocation data centre operator or co-hosting data centre operator; (8) ‘colocation customer’ means a physical or legal person who owns and manages one or more networks, servers and storage equipment located in a colocation data centre in which they purchase managed space, power, and cooling capacity; (9) ‘co-hosting customer’ means a physical or legal person who obtains access to a network or networks, servers, and storage equipment in a co-hosting data centre on which they operate their own services and applications; (10) ‘information technology outsourcing’ is the use of external service providers to deliver information technology-enabled business processes, application services and infrastructure solutions for business outcomes; (11) ‘data centre total floor area’ means the total floor area of all floors of the structure or group of structures that constitute the data centre; (12) ‘data centre computer room floor area’ means the total floor area within the data centre that accommodates the data processing, data storage and telecommunication equipment that provide the information technology services of the data centre; (13) ‘data centre redundancy’ means the duplication of certain sets of components or functions of a data centre in such a way that if one set fails or needs to be taken down for maintenance, the other set or sets can take over; (14) ‘installed information technology power demand’ means the sum of the nominal power demand, in kW, of the network or networks, servers and storage equipment installed in the data centre computer room floor area; (15) ‘rated information technology load’ means the maximum load of the network or networks, servers, and storage equipment, installed in the data centre computer room floor area, that the data centre infrastructure for power distribution and environmental control is capable of handling while providing the desired service availability.