Should You Outsource Data Warehousing: A Checklist

Data volumes will continue to grow. Particularly with Web log data or other event-based, high transactional count sources, organizations are seeing the need to process tens of gigabytes of data per day. How will you transport that data to your out-sourced service provider? If your warehouse requires only monthly loads, a tape mechanism may work fine. But if you require daily or more frequent loads (particularly as your warehousing operations become more “real-time”), the update frequency for large amounts of data dictates very high bandwidth transport mechanisms.