Most organizations today see data as being at the very core of their computing. Data provides an organization’s memory of customers, products, orders, employees, costs, revenue and profit.
In my last column I wrote about my predictions for 2014. While it is all well and good to look ahead, I thought that before we raced too eagerly into the future, we should not forget the adage “Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them,” which in one form or another was attributed to Winston Churchill.
Do a web search on “backing up cloud-based resources” and you’ll get a wealth of articles on how to back up your local machines to the cloud, but that search produces virtually nothing about how to back up the data already stored in the cloud. Does this concern you? It should!
There is a two-track approach to constructing an enterprise data model. First, reverse engineer existing applications to understand their content and seed the enterprise model.
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