Value-Add: Data Warehousing & Analysis Services Cube Storage Estimates

A common question I hear from my clients is “how much storage do we need?” Now wait a second, I thought storage was cheap these days right? Wrong, consumer storage is cheap; enterprise storage is still not what I would classify as cheap. Add to this fact that Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDWs) commonly break into the several terabytes range and the matter of planning storage capacities becomes greater.