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The 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 da
by joshuaellinger 13y ago
The 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.