City of Columbus - File #: 0928-2006

• File #: 0928-2006
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/10/2006
• In control: Administration Committee
• On agenda: 6/19/2006
• Final action: 6/23/2006
• Title: To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to establish a blanket purchase order with Mythics Corporation off an existing State Term Contract, to enable the upgrade of the Technology Department's hardware infrastructure through the purchase of Real Application Clusters technology; to authorize the expenditure of $294,600.55 from the Department of Technology's information services fund; and to declare an emergency ($294,600.55)

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/23/2006	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
6/22/2006	1	MAYOR	Signed
6/19/2006	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
6/19/2006	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT PRO-TEM	Signed
6/16/2006	1	Technology Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
6/15/2006	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
6/15/2006	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
6/15/2006	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
6/14/2006	1	Technology Drafter	Sent for Approval
6/8/2006	1	City Clerk's Office	Sent back for Clarification/Correction
6/2/2006	1	Technology Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
5/18/2006	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved
5/17/2006	1	Technology Drafter	Sent for Approval
5/17/2006	1	Auditor Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
5/17/2006	1	CITY AUDITOR	Reviewed and Approved
5/17/2006	1	Technology Drafter	Sent for Approval
5/16/2006	1	Technology Drafter	Sent for Approval
5/16/2006	1	Finance Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
5/16/2006	1	FINANCE DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
5/15/2006	1	Technology Reviewer	Reviewed and Approved
5/15/2006	1	Technology Drafter	Sent for Approval
5/11/2006	1	Technology Drafter	Sent for Approval
5/11/2006	1	TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
5/11/2006	1	Technology Drafter	Sent for Approval
5/11/2006	1	EBOCO Reviewer	Sent for Approval
5/11/2006	1	ODI DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
5/11/2006	1	Technology Drafter	Sent for Approval

Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance authorizes the purchase of Real Application Clusters (RAC) technology (software licenses and support); related services through use of a State Term contract (STS-033, 533207-0 expiration date of June 30, 2007) with Mythics Corporation. The City's current hardware infrastructure consists of both UNIX and Windows servers, an optimal solution at the time of the city's technology consolidation. Since that time however, the hardware technology has improved, with one such improvement being the development of the RAC technology. RAC technology is made of up multiple smaller and interchangeable components. Through the uses of RAC technology, administrators can more easily isolate and address problem areas in database clusters and on-demand server coupling. Gartner Group has confirmed the benefits of RAC Technology for increasing service levels and reducing cost in the datacenters.
The recommendation to upgrade to a RAC infrastructure was made by Oracle Corporation representatives, who held extensive interviews with Department of Technology staff. Information gathered in these interviews suggested that if a server experiences downtime the failover process can take 2-4 hours. This will result in application inaccessiblity for critical applications such as 311, GIS, and Accela. RAC provides the ability to run and scale all application workloads on a cluster of database servers and provides the highest level of availability, scalability, and low-cost computing. If a node in the cluster fails, RAC continues running on the remaining nodes. If more processing power is needed, new nodes can be easily added to the cluster without system downtime.
In addition to reduced downtime (and the resultant overtime pay) the purchase of RAC technology carries other benefits such as, absence of a single point of failure, including a lower total cost of ownership; improved database administration productivity; economies of scale due to share...