Scenario:
A large financial brokerage firm transacts about 32% of trades in the SouthAmerican
market.It offers brokerage services, investment banking, and financial advisory servicesto
corporations and individuals Recent expansions into other worldwide markets have led to
delays mprocessing trading datainto usablereports that are timely enough for consumption
by traders.The companyis seeking a way to give traders much closer real-time data touse
when making decisionson trades,ultimately translating intohigher results for its customers
and higher competitive advantage for the firmcompany is projecting 100% data growth rates
annually for the foreseeablefuture.A recentpower outage at the productiondata center that
lasted 24 hours resulted in significant data loss.The production data center:
Allrack-mount servers
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
HP ProLiantDL385 servers
Two HP EnterpriseVirtual Array 6400 SANs
Heterogeneous SAN environment consisting of HP B-seriesand HP C-series SANs
The on campus Disaster Recovery enter is newly constructed and has not been
configuredor brought on line:

BladeSystem environment
Core edge design
All HP B-series
HP 3PARStoreServ Storage System
The company pulls all of its trading information and data into a warehouseand then runs
reports onthe data internalreports determinewhether to update asset allocation. Customer
reports detailcurrent holding andearnings of the firm’s funds.The most complex reports takes
36 hoursto run an can only berun over the weekendto prevent disruptionto operations;this
results in tradersreceivingupdatedinformation only perweek.There is also an option for
customers to access web-based reports, and there is a need to update these reports more
frequently as well. Some of the additional business criteria identifiedin
customerplanninginterviews includes:
Produce daily reportsrather than weekly
Close to real timereportingto customers
Scalablesolutionfor further growthand without interruption
Ability to add additionalreports or analyzein new waysas the needarises
Reduced IT overtime
Concerned aboutapplication disruptionswhen addingorremovingSANdevices
Managemultiple fiberChannelports as one switch resource
Move from4GBSAN to an8GB FibreChannel SAN.
Looking for optionalperformance, lessdowntime, non-disruption expansion, anda
Low price per port on the FC Switchdeployment
Consolidation of SANs forseamlesssharing of server storageresources
Multiplesolutions, prioritizedwithrecommendation
Refer to the Scenario;
When designing a new SAN for the financial brokerage firm, which additional business
requirements should betaken into consideration?

A.
system uptime

B.
geographical location and regulatory requirements

C.
facility and environmental specifications

D.
cabling specifications