SLAW post on Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Benefits and E-Discovery Implications is a mini primer on these new technologies and highlights considerations for this environment.

“Some questions that you can consider are:

  • What types of data will you store in the cloud?
  • Will you be encrypting the data?
  • What will the cloud provider give you in regards to data protection, access, retention, security and logging?
  • Where will the data be stored and can you specify the geographic location?
  • Who can access the data?
  • How will the data be returned and in what format? How long will it take and is there any charge?
  • How does the provider deal with metadata and is it preserved?”

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