eDiscovery in the Cloud: The Sky is Not Falling

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An article by Charles Skamser posted on The eDiscovery Paradigm Shift blog.

This blog post discusses cloud computing and eDiscovery issues related to that topic. This blog item specifically analyzes an earlier article, and provides some counterpoints to those made in the earlier writing, the referenced article being discussed is titled, "The Promise of the Cloud Meets the Obligations of E-Discovery", published on the Law.com website on October 12, 2011, authors Brendan M. Schulman and Samantha V. Ettari.  A link to the referenced article is provided in Mr. Skamser's blog post, and the full text of the prior article is also provided within the blog post.

Mr. Skamser's writing touches on the following topics:

• The Legal Hold Process
• eDiscovery Collections in the Cloud
• Rights to Privacy
• Summary

The article essentially points out that many of the concerns associated with cloud computing are overblown, and will be addressed appropriately in the short term future.  This blog post in fact states that many of the proposed shortcomings of cloud computing are really, in fact, advantages.

The article states, "...to say that there is a dark cloud on the horizon that is going to swallow all of your crazy cloud people is not much different than the people that said Columbus would never return. Columbus made it and so will cloud computing. It fact, cloud computing has already made it and most of us are just fine, eDiscovery in the cloud and all!!"