What is a staging environment?

[Alma J Wetzker]

> James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:41:39 +1000
> 
> burns wrote:
> 
>>
>> After a short break, on the 8th day the Lord invented staging
>> environments. And verily they were wise that used them, even if the
>> scribes and elders knew not.
> 
> 
> What is a staging environment? I haven't heard of it before in relation 
> to IT.

It goes by many names.  It is where you have a smaller version of the 
production system with test data where all changes can be proven to work 
before they are put into the actual production environment.

Sometimes management provides direct support for getting the hardware to 
set one of these things up.  Other times you need to scrounge parts from 
wherever.  Running without one could be "BAD".

     -- Alma