STATE OF COLORADO GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF INFORMATION EcHOLOGY 1580 Logan Street, Suite 200 Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone (303) 866-6060 Fax (308) 866.6454 ‘wor colorado.gov/olt BU Ree, Governor Michael Locats ‘State Chief Information Officer Transparency in Government Initiative December 2, 2008 Note: It ts tmportant to note that the costs below do not include staff time. If existing staff are to be directed to work on this project they will have to wind down existing projects and ramp up for this project taking 3-5 weeks, Once on this project other projects will have to be delayed until this ts completed. Options: 1, Create a new database and website on VMWare servers (1 or 2 processors as needed) and use SQL Server Reporting. SQL Server Reporting is new to our group and would require training, ‘There are advantages to this approach: (1) Kronos Is moving from Crystal Reports to SQL Server Reporting Services, and we could leverage the Kronos training/experience in this application. (2) SQL Server Reporting Services is becoming a standard reporting development environment in IT. Two big disadvantages would be that (1) ‘TMU proficiency in SQL Server Reporting Services will take until June 2009 to develop, and (2) OSC daes not have this reporting skill. Estimated Cost: VMWare servers 1,000 OS for servers 1,600 SQLServer 2005 1,500 ‘Training for SQL Reporting 9,000 Plus: Security - FDW production would not be effected. Cost ~ Low, due to no need for WebFOCUS licenses. _ Growth ~ Allows for growth in the future even to move up to more processors Speed - Price of a dual processor server is the same as a single processor server so performance should be acceptable. Minus: Se2. Create a new database and website on two single-processor-VMWare servers and purchase related licenses. Estimated Cost: VMWare servers 1,000 0S for servers 1,600 SQL Server 2005 3,000 ‘WebFOCUS licenses 30,000 WebFOCUS annual maintenance 6,000 Plus: Security - FDW will be isolated from public-facing website. Cost - Medium Growth _ Allows both systems to grow in the future, even to move upto more processors and licenses for needed Minus: Speed ~ A single-processor database server will be somewhat slower than @ 2 processor but performance should still be acceptable. 3, reate a new database and website on two VMWareservers and purchase related licenses. Procure 2 wrocessor license for the database server. EStimated Cost: VMWare servers 1,000 OS for servers 1,600 SQL Server 2005 1,600 WebFOCUS licenses 0,000 WebFOCUS annual maintenance 10,000 : Plus: Security - FDW will be isolated from public-facing website. . Growth ~ Allows both systems to grow in the future, even to move up to more processors and licenses for needed Speed - The dual-processor database server will offer-more than acceptable performance, Minus: Cost- This might be more than what is needed. ‘A. Create a new database and website on the existing FDW servers and convert from two single-core to ‘dual-core processors. Purchase 2 additional processor licenses for WebFOCUS from [BI. Estimated Cost: WebFOCUS licenses 65,000 WebFOCUS annual maintenance 13,000 Plus: Speed ~ Higher than present, for both FDW and public web site Minus: Security - Lack of isolation between public and state web sites poses security issues, in particular denial of service attack against the public website would affect PDW users Minus: Cost - Highest. Growth - Limits growth of FDW database.