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Gain an understanding of what to look for in a cloud computing solution. Discover how you can safe guard your client's data in the cloud. Learn of the trends happening in the legal industry. Understand how cloud computing can change the way you practice law. See how local and national bars are reacting
Forrester: A pool of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed infrastructure capable of hosting endcustomer applications and billed by consumption Wikipedia: A style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the internet. Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the cloud that supports them.
Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Pre-Cloud Application Service Provider (ASP) Web Hosting Service Managed Hosting Service
Cloud Computing
Service turn on / turn off
Cloud Computing
Backup
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Governance
LACK OF I.T. SUPPORT DISCIPLINARY ACTION NO ESTABLISHED OFFICE PROTOCOLS ENTITY CHANGE
What are the areas of concern when selecting an offering delivered in the cloud?
The product, offering or application should help you solve important problems or jobs
Also worry about. Data Protection Data Ownership Availability
Data Protection
The only truly secured computer is the one unplugged from the wall and locked in a vault. .But you should expect your vendor to provide better data security than you maintain internally
What about encryption? How secure is the providers environment? How do they test? Are they monitoring for intrusions in real time? Third party certifications? How about internal actors?
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Data Ownership
At the end of the day, your client confidential information belongs to you!
How about the contract or terms and conditions? Government requests? Getting your data back? What happens when you terminate your service? Third parties the vendor might use? Use of your data to provide a better offering? Anonymized information to help all customers?
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Availability
Your cloud provider should be up and running when you need them
Uptime guarantees? Financial penalties? Number of data centers? Testing? Backups?
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Conflict of Interest
LexisNexis Firm Manager Mobility app Anyone with a mobile web browser and live Internet connection
Installation Requirements
No application installation is required if you already have a web browser on your phone/mobile device
Where Data Is Stored How Updates to the Mobile Application Are Delivered
In LexisNexis Firm Manager in the cloud Automatically through the Internetno action required on your part other than authentication
On the phone You must update the application on your phone/mobile device
My contact information:
Christopher Anderson LexisNexis 2000 Regency Parkway, Suite 600 Cary, NC 27518 Christopher.T.Anderson@lexisnexis.com
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