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In "What to Know Before Signing a Cloud Computing Agreement," Philip Porter & Michael Larner share their unique insights on key points to structuring and negotiating a cloud computing agreement. Viewable on any computer or iPod, the seminar is in PowerPoint with 90 minutes of audio narration and also includes an actual cloud computing agreement for your use/analysis in Microsoft Word. The seminar is sent to you on CD and highlights the most up-to-date analysis of critical sections, red flags to look for and negotiation strategies. Topics discussed in the seminar include:
- An overview of cloud computing as well as an in-depth look at the most confusing/complicated provisions in such an agreement
- Clause-by-clause analysis of a cloud computing agreement, red-flags to look for, and what points are non-negotiable
- The ability to distinguish between the architecture of a traditional IT transaction and that of a cloud computing transaction
- Strategies for dealing with transfer of a customer's confidential, mission-critical data to a vendor
- Case studies of other companies who have signed/negotiated a cloud computing agreement
Benefit from the insights and documents in this seminar to enhance your negotiating strategies when structuring such an agreement, use as a comparable for different ways to draft certain sections, or simply to get an idea of what a cloud-computing agreement looks like.
About the Seminar Authors:
Philip D. Porter is a Partner and a Director of the Intellectual Property Practice at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson LLP, which has twenty-seven offices in North and South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He has been structuring, drafting and negotiating software license agreements for more than twenty-six years and has been involved in remotely hosted computing transactions, under the various names by which they have been known, for as long as they have existed.
Michael E. Larner is a Counsel at Hogan & Hartson LLP and has been involved in remotely hosted computing transactions for his entire career. His experience with privacy, data security and open source software issues is particularly important for cloud computing transactions.
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