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Fenwick & West LLP

More Than Just Coffee and Rain: 10 Facts About Seattle’s Tech Community

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With Seattle Tech Week around the corner, here are 10 facts about the community that reveal why so many industry giants, startups, and investors choose Washington...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

JEDI Update: 3 Years After Launch, DOD’s Critical Cloud Computing Contract Is Still On Hold

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The acquisition battle between Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) over the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud contract saw another major development this fall with the...more

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Microsoft Upsets Amazon in Winner-Take-All Award of Defense Department's JEDI Contract

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On October 25, 2019, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) issued an award of its $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (“JEDI”) cloud computing contract to Microsoft, beating out Amazon Web Services (“AWS”), the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Kaavo Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. (D. Del. 2018)

Cloud Computing Claims Deemed Patent-Ineligible - This month, in an infringement case against Defendant Amazon, Judge Stark of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware ruled that Plaintiff Kaavo Inc.'s cloud...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

GEMSA’s Patent Onslaught Against Cloud Computing Customers

Global Equity Management (SA) Pty. Ltd. (“GEMSA”), a foreign non-practicing entity (“NPE”) organized under the laws of Australia, filed almost 40 patent lawsuits in five batches in 2015 and 2016. The majority of these...more

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice

IT Services with Chinese Characteristics

The "Amazon of China" is following Amazon's playbook yet again with their investment in the cloud. Aliyun, Alibaba's technology arm, already operates five Chinese data centers supporting 1.4 million customers. They cite high...more

Carlton Fields

Newly-Adopted Privacy Standards for Cloud Service Providers

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The International Standards Organization’s new cloud standard, ISO 27018, strives to ensure that public cloud service providers (such as Amazon, Google, and Rackspace) “offer suitable information security controls to protect...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Privacy in the Cloud: A Legal Framework for Moving Personal Data to the Cloud

For many companies, the main question about cloud computing is no longer whether to move their data to the “cloud,” but how they can accomplish this transition. Cloud (or Internet-based on-demand) computing involves a shift...more

Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP

Heartbleed Bug Creates Risk for Businesses and Consumers

On April 8, 2014, several news agencies, including the New York Times and CNN, reported the discovery of a vulnerability in a core security protocol used by an estimated two-thirds of the world’s servers. The vulnerability...more

BakerHostetler

Business Associate Agreements: More Readily Accepted by Cloud Service Providers? Maybe

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Although the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule's expansion of business associate liability could create difficulties for healthcare providers and other covered entities seeking to negotiate business associate agreements with vendors...more

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