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	Podcast:		voiceofthedba's podcast
	Episode:		Keep It All
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		00:03:22
	Publish Date:		2018-04-19 20:00:00
	Description:		I love this quote, though I'm not sure it's accurate. From The Future of Data Storage, the piece states: "What’s the most expensive thing you can do with a piece of data? Throw it out." That's from a storage vendor, and obviously they'd prefer that you keep all your data, which means more storage and backup space needed. Certainly I do think that losing data that's valuable can be expensive, but I also think that we often keep around older data that we don't use, or won't use, which is expensive. Not for individual pieces, but in aggregate, it becomes expensive. This is especially true if you move to the service area where you pay for what you use, as opposed to investing in a large chunk of storage that has a fixed cost. Read the rest of Keep It All
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