First instinct when a vendor announces end of life support for a platform is to look at the latest technology offering with a natural assumption being that it will be faster, simpler and cheaper. The reality, however, is that often the current system is performing satisfactorily across all measures and moving off it will result in a lot of pain. What can you do?

In this fourth and final episode in the series of blogs accompanying our joint webinars with Yellowbrick about data warehouse modernization we concentrate on why performance matters in a data warehouse context.