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Industry Implications of EO on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity
Episode #7 - It's All About Latency: The Future of Data Processing and Storage
Sitting with the C-Suite: In-House Counsel - Key Questions to Ask Your Law Firms about Technology
Sitting with the C-Suite: The Future of Legal Tech
Sitting with the C-Suite: Advice for Legal Technology Entrepreneurs
Sitting with the C-Suite: Alma Asay's Path to Legal Technology
Sitting with the C-Suite: Legal Industry Technology Adoption
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Key takeaways for cloud, SaaS, edge and other digital service providers - Introduction - On September 12, 2025, sweeping new rules under the EU Data Act (Regulation (EU) 2023/2854) will become applicable, introducing...more
“Software-as-a-Service,” commonly known as “SaaS,” is a subscription-based software distribution model in which the vendor allows users to connect to and use cloud-based applications over the Internet for the subscribed term....more
For more information about France’s SREN law, see our update that provides five key takeaways for businesses. Two new laws impose an array of obligations and restrictions on cloud providers in France. First, the European...more
Modern investigations require modern data collection solutions to solve the complex challenges facing eDiscovery practitioners. With employees generating vast amounts of data stored across multiple platforms and applications,...more
eDiscovery practitioners face rising challenges in the data collection landscape. There is an urgent need to preserve and analyze data; rising costs for server infrastructure and overhead and the increasing complexity and...more
The Data Act aims, amongst its main objectives, to enable customers of data processing services to switch between providers offering equivalent services, as well as to make use of multiple services from different providers...more
In today's business landscape, businesses are increasingly relying on third-parties to manage their information, especially those hosting their information in the cloud. This reliance on third parties and the nature of cloud...more
Kilpatrick Townsend attorneys Sonia Baldia and Jeff Connell recently presented at the “Association of Corporate Counsel Dallas-Fort Worth: 2023 Annual In-House Symposium” in Frisco, Texas. As businesses continue to accelerate...more
Companies procuring or providing Software-as-a Service (SaaS) technology need some form of contract to govern the relationship between the SaaS provider and customer. As with many intellectual property (IP) and technology...more
As 2023 begins, we are coming off many years of fast and frothy innovation with a great deal of new complexity in both products and business models. We now face a downturn. Prominent companies across the economy are...more
As we explained in our last post, managing ediscovery in the cloud is the only viable solution for dealing with the massive amount of electronic data involved in litigation today. Nextpoint has been an advocate for...more
I used to be someone who publicly eschewed the use of the cloud. I wrote whitepapers on the topic and mentioned it in every presentation I gave. For our company, I chose to operate a private cloud principally because it was...more
Kilpatrick Townsend attorneys Sonia Baldia and Jeff Connell recently presented at the “Association of Corporate Counsel National Capital Region Fall Conference: Advanced Topics for In-House Counsel” in Vienna, Virginia. As...more
On September 22, the Office of Communications (Ofcom)—the United Kingdom’s communications regulator—announced and released a program of work stating its intention to examine the position of the largest providers of cloud...more
Join us in a unique discussion regarding the cross-functional activities eDiscovery, IT, Compliance, Data Governance, and Security leaders often participate in while managing a large corporation’s information. Tips and tricks...more
Cloud computing dates to the mid-1990s – so why is this relatively old concept still such a hot topic? Haven’t we figured it all out by now? And isn’t the benefit of today’s SaaS cloud environments that someone else, namely...more
On May 12, 2021, President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order (EO) to protect federal government networks and software supply chains against increasing threats of attacks from malicious cyber actors, setting the stage...more
Given the broad use and relative importance of service-level agreements (SLAs) in a variety of contexts, in this blog post, we provide an overview of the basics of SLAs and what they should address. An SLA is an important...more
South Carolina imposes sales tax on retail sales of tangible personal property. South Carolina generally does not impose a sales tax on intangible property, however, certain intangible property is deemed to be tangible...more
On August 9, 2019, the U.S. Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations (the proposed regulations) that would classify cloud transactions for U.S. federal income tax...more
Cloud computing is a subscription-based service where a person or business can obtain networked storage space and computer resources for a fee. There are different types of cloud computing services. The two most...more
I have negotiated hundreds of SaaS agreements for dozens of software companies and I always hated when the company on the other side was a healthcare provider. Invariably, they would bring up Protected Health Information...more
Transportation and logistics providers are increasingly adopting cloud technology to bring connectivity and scale to their core operating systems. This trend will continue for the foreseeable future....more
The results of a recent study by Gartner, Inc. project worldwide growth of 18% in the public cloud services market during 2017. Gartner also expects the growing public cloud services market—projected to reach $246.8 billion...more
What You Need to Know: China has issued a new draft law tightening the regulation of cloud services. The draft: ..covers onshore hosted SaaS and PaaS (but possibly not IaaS) ..imposes new restrictions on...more