Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Optimizing the Information Supply Chain at the Back End
Too many times people focus on the front end of the information supply chain. It’s hard not to with glitzy analyses and results that tell you things about your organization and customers. People view data extraction, transformation and storage as necessary evils to get to those fun results. Data storage is associated with those people in the basement of that building without windows, who throw out terms like SCSI, Fibre Channel and DASD. However, it is important to keep track of innovations in the back end of the information supply chain. Today I will talk about storage area networks (SANs), which is one such innovation that will help optimize the back end of your business intelligence process.For all these years, your approach to storage within the organization has been “ad hoc.” As much as we’ve told you in data warehousing about planning for the future and scalability and avoiding stove-piped systems, an individual data warehouse is still a microcosm of the larger enterprise. When looking at storage in the enterprise, a lack of planning and foresight is evident. When you decided to build your data warehouse, you probably talked to a corporate infrastructure group that went out there and bought you a server and some DASD, and then you implemented the warehouse and it began to grow. In the beginning, your backups were fine, but …
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