Detailed Technical Specifications Clause Samples

Detailed Technical Specifications. The Contractor shall provide the infrastructure necessary to fully implement the CIVLS Solution. The Contractor’s solution reflects a robust infrastructure, optimized for high performance, availability, and recovery in a highly secure environment. Figure A-6 provides a logical view of the various environments necessary and provided to ensure a successful implementation. The Contractor shall provide multiple development, test, staging, and training environments to ensure that all of the project work is able to be completed efficiently and effectively. Many of these environments run on shared infrastructure using virtual machine technology (“VM”) to reduce cost. Production and failover environments are provided with all application software running natively under their associated operating system for performance and reliability. The Contractor shall use the State’s existing infra- structure, including hosting facilities, enterprise software licenses, SAN, network connectivity and disaster recovery sites. The SAN solution not only provides additional storage capacity to support the implementation, but also provides features that enable streamlined backup and disaster recovery processes as well as technologies that reduce the overall storage footprint, thus reducing power and HVAC loads on existing data center resources. Figure A-7 provides an overview of items on the Contractor’s CIVLS Product Schedule (see, Attachment 3 of Schedule A) pertaining to the deployment view of all preproduction and supporting environments. The Contractor shall provide all Internet-facing devices in a secured DMZ segment of the network. The servers in this segment are further controlled by a non-trusted Novel eDirectory which can be integrated or synchronized with Active Directory Domain, depending on state preferences. The Contractor’s CIVLS infrastructure design centers on several clustered and network load- balancing systems for high availability and failover. These strategies reduce the risk of outages caused by equipment failures. The Contractor shall also provide database mirroring, which redirects web and application traffic across a pair of database clusters. A standby database cluster in the disaster recovery site would pick up web and application requests if the primary cluster becomes unavailable, thus reducing any unplanned downtime. Cluster technology is used throughout the platform and supports the primary transaction database, the data warehouse database, imaging, an...