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Briefly tell us a little about CME.
What's your most important storage project for 2006? Taylor: Developing our midrange (Tier-2) storage platform. Our Hitachi 9960s are reaching end of life and selecting a midrange product is proving to be challenging, since we have come to appreciate enterprise reliability features that are absent from most midrange products. What are the key storage trends in your industry? Taylor: The buzz is all about iSCSI but I don't think "performance" storage will ever move off of Fibre Channel. (Certainly not in the near future.) In our industry, performance is measured in milliseconds and microseconds. We'll be watching the switch vendors and how the market changes over the year for the key players. What do you think will be the biggest hurdles to implementing storage in the coming year? Taylor: Our storage infrastructure is strong and is designed to grow. Our biggest challenge is battling the "marketing engines" that relentlessly promote new, cheaper technologies that are not ready for a critical environment like ours. What storage technologies are you evaluating for 2006? What looks interesting to you? Taylor: Midrange storage arrays. We'll evaluate the major vendors as well as some newer interesting solutions like 3Par [Data Inc.] or Pillar [Data Systems]. The concept of tiering performance within an array is interesting. We'll see if that idea holds up over time.What kind of staff changes do you expect, if any, in 2006? What skills are you looking for your staff to gain? Taylor: I don't see any changes to that this year. Continued training is critical to keeping skills current. That's the biggest challenge with staff is keeping their skills current when you consider how fast the technologies change. How do you see your storage utilization changing for the coming year?Taylor: Increasing . . . We are driven by transaction volume. This continues to increase as our business grows. The breakdown of the data across our tiered architecture seems to increase at the same pace as our transaction volume increases. |
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