Amid all the talk about the brave new data environments
coming our way, there are still some hard facts that won't change no matter
what kind of data infrastructure is in place. One of these is that there are no such things as unlimited resources. Sure, in
theory you may soon have access to everything you could conceivably need, but
the amount is still finite-and so is your ability to pay for it. This is
especially true for storage, which does not gain the same kind of benefit that
virtualization brings to servers and networking. A byte of data requires a byte
of storage-another one of those hard facts.
