[EN] Data Center ≠ Data Warehouse

Peter Norvig told this one, about the difference between a data center and a data warehouse, some fifteen years ago at a public lecture.

Substitute the next prefix if you find it appropriate.

They wake up the manager of a data center in the middle of the night when the amount of used storage reaches one petabyte.

They wake up the manager of a data warehouse in the middle of the night when there is only one petabyte of free storage left.