LegalCloud is a company with a really interesting business model: establishing a network of data centres with hosting packages specifically aimed at the legal market.

Essentially, the company will provide the same type of service as Amazon's EC2 cloud, but tailor it specifically for the legal market. An example is that the data centres won't be "acessible over the public internet" which will ease the minds of paranoid managing partners, but perhaps limit the choice of connectivity options.

To add grunt to their offering, LegalCloud has teamed up with RackSpace and will now be able to provide "business continuity services, replication of data and systems, unlimited storage, snapshots recovery points and other features through Rackspace Hosting". Although it's unlikely that firms will rush to outsource their entire data systems to LegalCloud we can see a huge initial demand for warm/hot recovery sites, and over the next few years will probably see a number of firms move to a fully hosted solution.

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