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Working in the Cloud - Lawyers and SaaS

By Dennis Kennedy

My latest technology column for the ABA Journal is out. It's called "Working in the Cloud" and it focuses on the area now known as Software as a Service (SaaS) or hosted services or cloud computing. In fact, it's my effort to make the concept of cloud computing accessible and understandable to the average lawyer. It's probably well-known than I've long been a fan of the SaaS approach, but this column is intended to provide a balanced discussion of the concept.

After sketching out some history, I cover the general benefits and concerns about the SaaS approach and give some suggested tips when considering this approach:

1. Ask ?compared to what??

6. Start small.

The details about the tips are in the article, of course, which you should now check out here.

[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]

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Full post as published by DennisKennedy.blog on July 26, 2009 (boomark / email).