proposal must enhance XYZ Company business operations and reduce overall cost, while
proving that business can be restored within guidelines provided by the board.
Each vendor should consider this as a landmark design and proposal, where upon successful
completion, the vendor will be considered preferential in future considerations outlined above.
Additionally, the proposal must include all software, hardware, and service offerings to handle
the XYZ Internet business. The solution proposal must include scale considerations for five (5)
years with our existing growth in mind. XYZ is looking for best of breed solutions, which have
tested/proven track records in these critical environments.
Consider solutions for:
Oracle (11gR2)
Websphere (v7)
IIS
Today, the Oracle database layer is housed in two IBM p595 systems, each with 12 dual core
board sockets running AIX 5.3 with Oracle 9i (64 GB Memory). The Websphere application
servers run on four AIX p520 systems with two single core sockets running AIX 6.1 (16 GB
Memory each). During peak business windows, these AIX systems currently run at 60%
utilization. Windows IIS is running on 12 physical systems running on Windows 2003 32-bit. As
of today, utilization of the Web servers is roughly 77% of capacity, maxing out during holiday
and other retail heavy seasons.
The current SAN infrastructure is based on EMC Symmetrix and IBM FasT Array technologies
with Brocade SAN switches. These SAN switches are 4 gb/s capable and have the appropriate
redundancies built into the architecture. The secondary data center (Store #003) also contains
SAN infrastructure similar to the primary data center. XYZ Company is interested in on-premise
innovative ideas to significantly improve IO performance and tightly control storage costs while
maintaining high standards of data availability.
Considerations for database, application layer, and Web-presentation layers must integrate
seamlessly with the existing chosen software solutions of XYZ: Oracle, WebSphere, and
Microsoft IIS. Currently, the IIS operations are older (Windows 2003 32-bit) and are a source of
outage exposure, as these were not built for scale or availability. Consider demonstrating how
this technology would integrate with recovery/replication solutions. All data for business
operations must be replicated to the XYZ DR facility (Store #003) to fit within the Board of
Director (BoD) time constraints.