Where do the cloud and privacy meet?
That was one of the main subjects of a two-hour conversation over lunch late last month. And even though the participants were experts in eDiscovery and cloud computing, answers to that question were as elusive as, well, one of those white fluffy things.
By all accounts cloud computing is growing exponentially. More and more companies, individuals and government agencies work with programs and data that reside on the Internet. In other words, they're stored on remote servers maintained by third parties — that's all cloud computing is. And we do it without even knowing it. (Can you say Facebook?)
What's driving many companies to join the cotton-ball revolution is a simple matter of money. Patrick Oot said a company that uses cloud computing could pay a quarter of what it would otherwise cost to store electronic data on its own servers. Oot was one of the participants in the session in the Manhattan restaurant organized by Recommind, the San Francisco-based software company that's a major provider of eDiscovery services. He's co-founder and GC of the nonprofit Electronic Discovery Institute in D.C. (and formerly eDiscovery director at Verizon).
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Source: law.com
By: David Hechler
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