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An article by Barry Murphy published by Forbes on the Forbes.com website.
The article discusses "Cloud" based computing services, and focuses on how they are dealt with when it comes to an eDiscovery process.
The article mentions the City of Los Angeles, and discusses their dissatisfaction with the Cloud model they chose to adopt two years ago. Security of data, and the inability to provide eDiscovery services for the data in the cloud are mentioned as complaints that L.A. has had regarding their attempt to implement a cloud based system.
The article further states, "A large majority of respondents to our “The Cloud and eDiscovery” survey are using cloud-based solutions, ranging from hosted email archiving to popular applications like Salesforce.com and QuickBooks. Companies are knowingly or unknowingly storing discoverable information assets in the cloud. But the real question they should be asking is, “Do we have a plan in place for eDiscovery should the need arise?”" A link to the referenced Cloud survey is provided in the article.
According to the article, "Only 16% of respondents indicate that an eDiscovery plan is in place for cloud-based information management solutions. Granted, only 26% actually responded that they do not have an eDiscovery plan in place, but what is truly scary is the 58% who don’t even know if a plan exists. This means that many organizations, when they face an investigation or litigation, will be left scrambling in a reactive firefight to collect information from the cloud. That will inevitably lead to higher costs and more difficulty making informed legal decisions quickly."
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