Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
Resourceful Storage
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
Memory used to be expensive and, as a result, difficult to acquire for large enterprises as well as individuals. Prices may be down now, but the need for memory has expanded so exponentially that some of the savings that could be realized is lost.
History has taught us that for all the assurances that IT departments had given us in the past regarding how they could provide for departmental and organizational storage needs, we (and they) have learned from experience to be more conservative in their ability to commit to these resources.
Part of the problem is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, computer users seem to hate the idea of removing unwanted and unneeded material from their machines and connected or integrated systems until it is time to get replacements. In addition, application programmers often make their contribution by developing products that increase the use of memory with less attention being spent on writing tighter code and write off other concerns such as massive and inexplicable data creation with a cavalier assumption that is just another acceptable “cost of doing business”.
This all fosters the principle of systemic gluttony, and while some of us may find it a “virtual sin”, there are resource solutions available that can be managed effectively and help provide “abstinence training” in the …
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