IT Associate at NSK Inc. Receives VMWare Certification 

 MPICA Seminar Presentation of MGL 93H 201CMR17.00 at the ICA

  This morning NSK Inc. met with IT and Human Resources Staff from the ICA, The Museum of Science, The Boston Children's Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the New England Genealogical Society to discuss the new Privacy Law that goes into effect in Massachusetts on March 1, 2010 (MGL 93H 201CMR17.00).  The meeting was sponsored by and held at the ICA.  Ryan Hickey and Timothy Lasonde from NSK Inc showed a Power Point presentation to everyone and explained the new law and what is required by Massachusetts companies to be in compliance by March 1, 2010.

 The Rise of Cloud Computing

The rise of cloud computing is shifting the center of gravity. It is changing the nature of competition within the computer industry. Technological developments have up until this moment pushed computing power away from central hubs: first from mainframes to minicomputers, and then to PCs and laptops. Now a combination of cheaper and more powerful processors, and ever faster and more ever present networks, is pushing power back to the center in some respects, and even further away in others. The cloud's data centers are, in effect, outsized public mainframes that users do not have to keep up, or update.[1]   

 Final Version of MGL 93H 201 CMR 17.00 Filed

OCABR (Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation) on October 29th, 2009 filed the "Final" version of the "Standards for the Protection of Personal Information" also known as MGL 93H 201 CMR 17.00 with the Secretary of State's office.  The first issue was in September of 2008, and after more than a year of amendments to the original regulations this is the final step before the regulation takes effect on March 1, 2010.  The final regulations include some further clarifications than the amendment that was released in August of this year, but are substantially similar.