To make the right business and operational decisions about data, it is important to determine which data is cold, which data is warm, and which data is hot. Data that is frequently accessed on fast storage is considered hot data, less-frequently accessed data stored on slower storage is warm data, and data that is rarely accessed and resides on slowest storage is considered cold data.
It is vital that to understand how it is used, both in terms of the workload and in terms of the capacity that in the data warehouse. To successfully rebalance the data warehouse, the first step is to access and identify less-frequently accessed data and resource-intensive workloads.
For example, a typical data warehouse may have hot data that is using 50% of the CPU cycle, which is busy performing data transformation and extractions.
Often this kind of workload is consuming only 10% of the total data warehouse workload, therefore, that 10% of the data warehouse workload is using 50% of system CPU cycle.
That is the hot data! This scenario where organizations using the data warehouse to do a lot of workloads which may be better suited for a different platform – is quite common.
It is not just about hot, warm, or cold data, it is about understanding where the data is, when and how it is being used, who is using it, and what the organization wants to do with it.
Mission statements
You can tell a lot about a company by its mission statement. Don’t have one? Now might be a good time to create one and post it here. A good mission statement tells you what drives a company to do what it does.
Executive profiles
A company is only as strong as its executive leadership. This is a good place to show off who’s occupying the corner offices. Write a nice bio about each executive that includes what they do, how long they’ve been at it, and what got them to where they are.
Articles
Good topics for articles include anything related to your company – recent changes to operations, the latest company softball game – or the industry you’re in. General business trends (think national and even international) are great article fodder, too.
Company policies
Are there company policies that are particularly important to your business? Perhaps your unlimited paternity/maternity leave policy has endeared you to employees across the company. This is a good place to talk about that.
