Member Avatar for pureclass

A certain multinational company (provides coverage of sporting events like olympics) has decided to acquire a system that will definitely provide big benefits to them in terms of its operations. In relation to this, other software products valuable to the business have also been procured upon the recommendation of technical experts.
The company's purchase of a highly-popular, Oracle-based statistics library system built by a distinguished third-party software developer was a major decision. Subsequently, it has also bought a multi-platform license of the Oracle RDBMS 10g that the system will use as a backend and will serve as a repository for both statistical data and as well as select multimedia (video and audio) clips of their broadcast coverage. With this move, the company is confident that it will be able to servei ts client better and give the company a stronger foothold on the top position int he industry.
However, the company still does not have the hardware for the server, and is also thinking whether to upgrade or replace existing client machines to run the new software and other recently -obtained multimedia application and tools. So, what will be the latest and affordable hardware configuration that best fits to the existing open-system architecture consisting mostly of microcomputers connected through a wide area network (WAN) via TCP/IP and SPX?IPX, Unix, And Windows Server2003 boxes, and Novell Netware file servers.

So, what will be the best hardware configuration for this server?
Can you give any suggestions? thanks...

  • 3 Contributors
  • 5 Replies
  • 189 Views
  • 2 Weeks Discussion Span
  • Latest Post Latest Post by Ronaldo333

Dani AI

Generated

Brief summary and high-level approach: the project combines a heavy relational-database workload (metadata/statistics) with large, sequential multimedia storage and WAN delivery. The safest architecture separates responsibilities: a purpose-built database host (low-latency I/O, lots of RAM), dedicated media storage (high-capacity, high-throughput), and a scale-out application/streaming tier. Size each layer from measured capacity/growth numbers and validate with a short proof-of-concept before buying.

Recommended starting hardware patterns (tune to your expected dataset and concurrency):

  • Database host: enterprise rack server with redundant PSUs, ECC memory and hardware-backed write cache. Prioritize memory (enough to hold the active working set) and low-latency I/O (enterprise SSDs or high-RPM SAS in RAID10 for data files; separate devices for redo/transaction logs). Keep DB data off the same physical disks as large media files.
  • Media/storage tier: SAN or scale-out NAS with two tiers — fast RAID10/SSD for frequently accessed clips and large-capacity RAID6/SATA for archive clips. Ensure snapshots and replication are supported by the array.
  • App/streaming tier: multiple smaller servers (virtualized or physical) behind load balancers to handle transcoding and delivery; place these close to the media store to avoid cross-rack traffic.
  • Network: segregate management, client, and storage traffic on separate NICs/VLANs. Use link aggregation and redundant 10Gb (or faster) links for storage and inter-tier traffic.

Operational and procurement notes: demand vendor certification for the RDBMS and OS on your chosen hardware, require an SLA that matches your business continuity needs, and build a test plan that includes realistic read/write and streaming workloads. Instrument the stack (IOPS, latency, CPU, wait time) and run recovery drills for backups and failover. As suggested, OEM support can simplify SLAs — if you follow that route, verify support scope and on-site response commitments and keep configuration/capacity limits documented for future scaling.

Recommended Answers

All 5 Replies

Member Avatar for pureclass

does anyone of you here could help me what hardware to propose for this company??? please i really need your help..... any suggestion will be appreciated. thanks.

Member Avatar for jermaghs07

honestly for that big of an operation i would suggest going to dell and having them build you a server. they are fairly cheap and will provide Great technical support(For large businesses). Plus that way there is a good warranty if anything breaks. and they will install it for you.

Member Avatar for pureclass

ok, thanks a lot...

Member Avatar for pureclass

These are the Functional Requirements:

Server:
RDBMS
-supports oracle RDBMS 10g

Operating system
-supports Unix,window server 2003

Client
-supports MS window XP, LINUX, MAc OS or higher

Applications
-Adobe Premiere Photoshop, oracle 10g DEv't suite

Multimedia
-supports audio and video playback

Network:
tcp/ip network protocol

Technical support
-provides 24 * 7 support services
-provide support through the web
-technical support telephone hotlines
-assures maximum response time of 4 hours on-site support

Member Avatar for Ronaldo333

The company's purchase of a highly-popular, Oracle-based statistics library system built by a distinguished third-party software developer was a major decision. Subsequently, it has also bought a multi-platform license of the Oracle RDBMS 10g that the system will use as a backend and will serve as a repository for both statistical data and as well as select multimedia (video and audio) clips of their broadcast coverage. With this move, the company is confident that it will be able to serve its client better and give the company a stronger foothold on the top position in the industry.
===========================================================

Ronaldo

www.google.com

Be a part of the DaniWeb community

We're a friendly, industry-focused community of developers, IT pros, digital marketers, and technology enthusiasts meeting, networking, learning, and sharing knowledge.