title: The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management
author:  Jon William Toigo 
description: Based on extensive interviews with industry leaders, <I>The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management</I> provides a concise glimpse of the present state and future direction of enterprise databases. This authoritative and enthusiastically written text can benefit any IT professional working with databases at the department or enterprise level.
zlib_text:  Steven S. Skiena 
  The Data Science Design Manual
  
  Steven S. Skiena
  Computer Science Department 
  Stony Brook University 
  Stony Brook, NY 
  USA
   ISSN   1868-0941 
   ISSN   1868-095X (electronic) 
   Texts in Computer Science 
   ISBN  978-3-319-55443-3 
   ISBN  978-3-319-55444-0 (eBook) 
   DOI  10.1007/978-3-319-55444-0 
  Library of Congress Control Number: 2017943201
   ©  The Author(s)  2017 
   
   This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature 
   The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG 
   The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland  
  
  Preface
  Making sense of the world around us requires obtaining and analyzing data from
  our environment. Several technology trends have recently collided, providing
  new opportunities to apply our data analysis savvy to greater challenges than
  ever before.
  Computer storage capacity has increased exponentially; indeed remembering
  has become so cheap that it is almost impossible to get computer systems to for-
  