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Cloud Computing
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Inside Privacy
USA PATRIOT Act and the Use of Cloud Services
By David Fagan
Enterprises must consider a range of benefits and costs as they evaluate migrating their IT functions and data to cloud-based computing services, including the impact of the cloud services on…
DuetsBlog
The Microsoft Cloud is Entering China
The United States may still be leading in cloud computing sales, but China’s appetite for cloud computing services may be growing faster than the United States. Gartner found that 55 percent…
Privacy & Data Security Law Journal
Data Security — What Are The Issues?
By Al Saikali
As “the cloud” becomes an increasingly important and more widely used tool for computing and data storage, companies (and their lawyers) must address a number of challenging issues. Some of…
Technology Law Dispatch
Health Care in the Cloud – Think You Are Doing Fine on Cloud Nine? Hey, You! Think Again. Better Get Off of My Cloud.
By Christine Nielsen Czuprynski
This post was written by Vicky G. Gormanly and Joseph I. Rosenbaum. The interest level in storing health records in digital format has grown rapidly with the lower cost and greater…
Life Sciences Legal Update
Transcending the Cloud: A Legal Guide to the Risks and Rewards of Cloud Computing – Health Care in the Cloud
The interest level in storing health records in digital format has grown rapidly with the lower cost and greater availability and reliability of interoperable storage mechanisms and devices. Health care…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Cloud Computing for Regulated Industries: Security Requirements Differ
Data stored in the cloud will be subject to numerous data security laws, explains Hogan Lovells partner Phil Porter in a recent article. Specific types of data will trigger different…
Best Practices Construction Law
Trouble with Terabytes? Tips for Construction Industry Going to the Cloud
The following headline caught my attention this past weekend as I was reading the April issue of the ABA Journal: "The Trouble with Terabytes: As Bulging Client Data Heads for the…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Strategies for Evaluating Cloud Computing Agreements
In April 2011, a technical malfunction suffered by the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud resulted in a multi-day outage affecting hundreds of businesses. The incident offered high-profile evidence of both the…
DuetsBlog
Let the Cloud Platform Wars Begin!
Microsoft is joining the battle for cloud platform supremacy through the release of Office 365. In doing so, Microsoft joins the likes of Google and VMware to see who will emerge…
Data Counsel
PCI Security Council Releases Standards Guidance for Virtual Environments
Over half of the companies surveyed by Trend Micro in May 2011 reported having cloud computing services being developed, implemented, or already in production. The survey also reports that security…