CIOs said they expect workloads in private cloud environments to reach 25% by 2018 from 17% in 2014. Public cloud is expected to comprise 20% of total workloads by 2018, up from 8% in 2014.

In short: Cloud computing poses legal challenges, such as privacy problems; but the cloud also offers benefits to the legal profession and their clients, if harnessed with big data analytics.

The rapid expansion of cloud computing ... data pipelines in cloud environments requires thoughtful architectural design, tool selection, and operational best practices." However, real-time ...