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Whoever told you that about Teradata was very bad at arithmetic.
by CurtMonash 13y ago
Whoever told you that about Teradata was very bad at arithmetic.
- joshuaellinger 13y agoThe mighty Curt Monash reads HackerNews? Who knew? Howdy. I like how you hold no punches on your blog but normally you are good about backing them up with data. I hope to meet you some day. The precise quote from my client that uses TeraData is "I.T. charges me $1M for each TB I use". I know that's very different from what it costs the business but it is still a very damning number. That's basically a fully loaded cost to an end business unit.
- CurtMonash 13y agoOK, maybe it's his IT department that's arithmetically challenged. :) If costs are CLOSE to being that high, then data volumes are a very poor metric for cost allocation. 2+ people per terabyte are being counted in, so either there are a huge number of tables, or they're including BI developers, or something. E.g., doubling the size of every table, if nothing else changed, might only take those costs up 10%, give or take a factor of 2.