Scenario: A large financial brokerage firm transacts about 32% of trades in the South American market. It offers brokerage services, investment banking, and financial advisory services to…

Scenario:

A large financial brokerage firm transacts about 32% of trades in the South American market. It offers brokerage services, investment banking, and financial advisory services to corporations and individuals Recent expansions into other worldwide markets have led to delays m processing trading data into usable reports that are timely enough for consumption by traders. The company is seeking a way to give traders much closer real-time data to use when making decisions on trades, ultimately translating into higher results for its customers and higher competitive advantage for the firm company is projecting 100% data growth rates annually for the foreseeable future. A recent power outage at the production data center that lasted 24 hours resulted in significant data loss. The production data center:

• All rack-mount servers
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000
• HP ProLiant DL385 servers
• Two HP Enterprise Virtual Array 6400 SANs
• Heterogeneous SAN environment consisting of HP B-series and HP C-

series SANs The on campus Disaster Recovery Center is newly constructed and has not been configured or brought on line:

• BladeSystem environment
• Core edge design
• All HP B-series SAN fabric
• HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System

The company pulls all of its trading information and data into a warehouse and then runs reports on the data internal reports determine whether to update asset allocation. Customer reports detail current holding and earnings of the firm's funds. The most complex reports takes 36 hours to run an can only be run over the weekend to prevent disruption to operations; this results in traders receiving updated information only per week. 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 identified in customer planning interviews includes:

• Produce daily reports rather than weekly
• Close to real time reporting to customers
• Scalable solution for further growth and without interruption
• Ability to add additional reports or analyze in new ways as the need

arises

• Reduced IT overtime
• Concerned about application disruptions when adding or removing SAN

devices

• Manage multiple fiber Channel ports as one switch resource
• Move from 4GB SAN to an 8GB Fibre Channel SAN.
• Looking for optional performance, less downtime, non-disruption

expansion, and a Low price per port on the FC Switch deployment

• Consolidation of SANs for seamless sharing of server storage

resources

• Multiple solutions, prioritized with recommendation

Refer to the scenario. One proposed solution is to replace all 4Gb SAN swithces with 8Gb SAN switches. Which change to the proposal will provide investment protection and still meet all of the financial brokerage firm requirements?