How the legal sector can navigate the rise of public cloud

Read CTS‘ guide on the flexibility and cost savings that Microsoft Azure could bring to law firms.

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An increasing number of law firms are looking to the cloud to deliver cost-efficiencies and flexibility, with the market becoming increasingly confident with cloud providers’ IT security and compliance capabilities.

This shows a marked change in the industry as the cloud market matures and more law firms choose to entrust Microsoft Azure with their client data.

There were long-held concerns about co-locating data in a public cloud – the physical geographic location of the data, including jurisdiction, was a related concern. However, as leading technology providers have poured research and development investment into cloud products, they created controls to address the fears of multi-tenancy.

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