Between the demise of dotcoms and the over-valuation of technology companies, it seems to me that mainstream IT has acquired a bad reputation. In my mind, there’s far too much generalizing going on these days.
Make no mistake: Moving applications onto the Web merely makes disaster recovery planning even more critical.
If you read the trade magazines, you’ve seen an endless stream of information and opinion about data warehouses, data marts and operational data stores. But what about staging areas—the forgotten data store?