BI, Data Warehousing Offer EA Avenues to the Cloud

by Ken Orr

Having been in the computer business for quite a while, I've seen a number of shifts in the underlying architecture of hardware and communications. First, there were mainframes, then minis, then PCs, then local area networks, client-server, and, most recently, the Internet. Now we are faced with a combination hardware/communication/software leap onto "the cloud."