But when you have to be your own IT / devops... and when maybe all you know is R, some stats, and how to admin a laptop... The head of finance may have burned

But when you have to be your own IT / devops... and when maybe all you know is R, some stats, and how to admin a laptop... The head of finance may have burned most of the opex budget and devops bandwidth on the Vertica and/or other DB service(s) they were using.