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Will a New Bill Virtually Eliminate the HITECH Act?
Recently legislation was introduced into the house that has some some backers of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act 2009) up in arms. -
Does the Cloud Need Federal Regulation?
Does Congress need to modernize the laws, adapt them to the cloud, and adopt new measures to protect privacy and promote security? Microsoft says yes. -
Defendants Can’t Pass the Buck on eDiscovery
Think you can pass on eDiscovery costs to the plaintiffs? Think again. -
Top B&L Blog Posts for October
The Top 5 Blog Posts from B&L Associates for October 2010. -
How to Defend Against e-Discovery Surprises with a Social Media Plan
With the rise of social netorks like Tiwtter and Facebook, employers are finding it tough to maitain e-discovery policies and allow their emplyees the freedom to use the social web. We discuss things you can do now to buffer... -
Storage Firm Sanctioned $150K for eDiscovery Snafu
When you make your money making storage devices it’s a little embarrassing to show up in court without data that’s supposed to be safely stored on your hardware. It can be costly, too. That’s what storage titan SanDisk discovered... -
Wisconsin “De-claws” eDiscovery Rules
Following the lead of the federal courts, the states have begun to put on their books procedures for handling the discovery of electronically stored information in legal proceedings. What’s interesting about what the states are doing is how... -
Should the cloud be more regulated?
Should the federal government regulate the cloud? Apparently, Microsoft thinks so. Softzilla is asking Congress to pass legislation to regulate cloud computing. -
RFID duels with bar codes for data center dominance.
Tracking assets in the data center has largely been the domain of the bar code, but RFID has begun to make inroads into the striped label’s territory. -
How to Run a Leaner, Greener Data Center.
Deadbeat servers can impose needless expenses on a data center. Decommissioning a single dead, or “ghost” server, can save as much $560 a year, although some analysts put that figure upwards of $2,000. For large server farms—farms with 100,000 servers a...