It is fully understood that on many Data Warehouse projects the
hardware capital budgets will impact the size of the machine that
may be used. The rest of the document describes how to build a
balanced system. Should hardware budgets limit the size of the
Data Warehouse machine all parties should be aware and modify
their expectations accordingly. It should be noted however that
well sized machine initially will allow more freedom and give
the project a higher chance of success and subsequent growth.