Comments on: Lawyers shine light on real cloud concerns

The legal profession is showing a marked increase in interest in the effects of cloud computing on everything from pretrial evidence and privacy to employment law and liability. Its about time.

[MadLyb]

This is not really a new topic, but I guess it is getting more focus.

It is one of the primary drivers for a weak enterprise adoption. Any Enterprise IT team worth it's salt would evaluate these risks and find CC severely lacking, especially for business critical apps.

It will take a new paradigm in data and application management that takes these risks into account before the very justified fears of business are mollified.

Not really new? Seems as old as computers to me. Could someone explain to me how this is any different then all the outsourced IT that's been going on since the 1950's? SaaS, CC, whatever you want to call it is just a delivery mechanism across a medium. The end result is still an application providing a service. Not anything new. Data centers sharing application and data space used to be across leased or dial up phone lines. Just because the communication is now over an internet packet doesn't really change anything. Data centers had to worry about intrusion, data integrity and exclusivity, uptime, etc. Every concern listed in the article has been dealt with for years. So what's the big deal? You hit on it early in the article - people creating a market for their services by serving up FUD. Crisis capitalism.

[gggg sssss]

Can you imagine if Bernie Madof kept his records on Google? Amazon? *** ever? Of course he is fried, but all of thoese people that stole a bit off teh top on each transaction woudl be right there is plain sight. ROTFLMAO

[colinmathews]

I agree that it may take some legal evolution to make cloud computing and SaaS offerings as safe as agreements with brick-and-mortar operations. When done correctly, SaaS offerings are a brilliant way to reduce costs, improve reliability, and enjoy high-quality services.