Six Things Google Drive Must Do To Compete With Dropbox, Apple’s iCloud, Microsoft Cloud, and Box
With the imminent release of Google Drive next week, I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to see in this offering, for which I have high hopes but equally realistic expectations. In order for Google Drive to compete with key competitors—Dropbox, Apple’s iCloud, Microsoft’s Cloud, and Box—it will have to meet six important criteria. 1. It must understand workflow – the.. read more →
Names to Know in Big Data: Hitachi Data Systems (HDS)
As originally published in Forbes on October 25, 2011. Pairing Big Data with business intelligence (“BI” or analytics) is revolutionizing the business world in profound ways and at a dizzying pace. In terms of pure volume, the latest IDC Digital Universal Study reports that more than 1.8 zettabytes—10 to the power of 21 bytes—of information will be.. read more →
Names You Need To Know in Data Security: Cleversafe
As originally published in Forbes on September 30, 2011. How big is Big Data? According to technology advisory firm IDC, the world’s data in 2007 totaled nearly exabytes. One exabyte equals 1018 bytes. To put that in perspective, GMail allows you to send attachments totaling “only” 25 gigabytes (25 billion bytes), a huge allowance but still small.. read more →
Data Security And The Imperative of Private Clouds
As originally published in Forbes (Sept. 9, 2011). In the past several months, I have written three articles about cloud computing, including one that outlines the manner in which electronic discovery continues to migrate to the cloud. My enthusiasm for the cloud has not diminished, as I feel that the cloud is a business imperative,.. read more →
E-Discovery Moves to the Cloud
As originally published in Forbes (Aug. 26, 2011). Electronic discovery is moving to the cloud. This is hardly surprising when one considers the client-focused benefits of cloud computing and the extraordinary market opportunities for vendors. Let’s look at the numbers. The market for electronic discovery continues to grow with some estimates indicating aggregate software and.. read more →
Google: Can Anonymous Emails Remain Anonymous?
As published in Forbes (May 27, 2011). When may an anonymous email remain anonymous? A New York appellate court addressed this very question last week in Sandals Resort International Ltd. v. Google, Inc. and held that the validity of a request to an email service provider such as Google (GMail) to ascertain the identity of.. read more →
A Cloud Computing Primer for Corporate Counsel
As originally published in The American Lawyer’s Corporate Counsel and Law & Technology News (March 1, 2011). Cloud computing is the most exciting evolution in information technology today. Defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) as “a model for enabling convenient, on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable resources.. read more →
Cloud Computing: A Shift From IT Luxury to Business Necessity
As originally published in The Huffington Post (Jan. 13, 2011). Co-authored with Narinder Singh. Cloud computing may be defined as location independent computing whereby shared servers — for the purposes of this article, external to the enterprise — provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand. Cloud computing may have started.. read more →