Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Way Up Yonder in the Wherever



FutureLawyer discusses cloud computing. An excerpt:

Computing in the cloud is what used to be called SaaS, or Software as a Service. Computer programs and data are stored in a remote location on servers located in bunches at server farms, and the user interacts over the Internet with the programs and data stored elsewhere. The servers are protected and managed by third parties, hopefully with state of the art security and safety. Major hacks of servers owned by corporations and others have made the news in a way similar to the newsworthiness of a plane crash. They tend to be spectacular. However, statistics show that airplane travel is the safest form of travel, so why are lawyers afraid of cloud computing?

[Execupundit note: I think part of the fear stems from the name. "Cloud" does not sound secure. "Rock" would have been more reassuring.]

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