Over 25 years ago, the average business was just becoming acquainted with how to effectively capture and store its data. Back then, data was used to help retail companies manage their inventories, enable commercial airlines to effectively maintain their flight schedules, and allow service-oriented businesses to capture and store their customer contact information. The pace was slower, and the information systems used to compute silo data queries were capable of delivering on time and on-premise.…
It is surprisingly rare for IT people (in general) to appreciate that data warehousing requires a lot of disk space. Non-IT people, on the other hand, is more appreciative. They understand that if we collect data from many different places and put them in 1 place, then naturally it will require a big disk space. But IT people are quite the opposite: they can appreciate that email and file servers are disks hungry, but…