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Article: Storage success: it's all in the execution; you know the data your company generates is important, but what's the best way to store it? We look at how important is storage and data warehousing and why should your company have it. (Special Feature -- Storage And Data Warehousing).(Brief Article)
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- Australian Banking & Finance
- Article date:
- March 28, 2002
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STORAGE AND DATA WAREHOUSING is big business. Global revenues in the data storage industry are expected to surge 12 per cent to $53.3 billion in 2004, up from $28.4 billion in 1999.
So, what is a data warehouse and how can it affect a company's bottom line?
In its simplest terms, a data warehouse is a database designed to support decision making in an organisation. Storagetek marketing manager Joan Tunstell explains that a storage warehouse gives "the ability to collect data from your business and then be able to mine through that data and seek out information that can be used in a strategic sense for your business". Storagetek provides data storage and ...