Stephen “Steve” Guistwite serves as founder and president of Highpoint Technology Group, an IT company that lists cloud-based solutions, or elastic and on-demand IT services that are delivered online, as one of its four core support services. Given the web deployment feature of these solutions, the nature of the data storage or data residency is of high relevance for Steve Guistwite and his team at Highpoint Technology Group.

1. The Fundamentals of Data
Residency
By Steve Guistwite

2. Introduction
• Stephen “Steve” Guistwite serves as founder and
president of Highpoint Technology Group, an IT
company that lists cloud-based solutions, or elastic and
on-demand IT services that are delivered online, as one
of its four core support services. Given the web
deployment feature of these solutions, the nature of the
data storage or data residency is of high relevance for
Steve Guistwite and his team at Highpoint Technology
Group.
By definition, data residency is the physical location of
an organization’s information or data. Some
organizations may have data storage infrastructure, such
as servers, present in their office location.

3. Data Residency
• Other companies, such as those who fully opt for
cloud-based solutions, may not have physical large-
scale data storage infrastructure. In the case of cloud
services, data will reside where the cloud solutions
provider’s servers are located.
Cloud-based data storage providers can have various
server locations. Because various regions and
countries can be subject to differing laws and
regulations regarding data residency, it is crucial to
ensure that a business’ cloud-based data is secure
and to know exactly where the provider stores its
data.