If projects were animals, some would be bears, some would get your goat, and some would have nine lives. It's run by robots but they are aged, worn, and, by today's standards, slow. Don't get us wrong, it's been great, and it's still reliable, but ten years in this business is the age of Methuselah. The Data Center formed a committee to do something about it. We have to take pains.
Panaceas are out of the question.
One size may fit all, but not at Wal-Mart, and not here. There's still preliminary work to do, but we've already begun mulling our options. We doubt that we can do a total system replacement, not this fiscal year, but we will do what we can, within budget. It probably wouldn't meet all our needs, but would surely help. Once the storage threshold is met, the subsystem automaticallymoves the data off to tape.