Hi MVP’s,
I am busy working on a bid for a ITT and I’m hoping for some help with a requirement spec’d in the ITT.
The customer has a head office based somewhere in the British Virgin Islands, and branch offices around the US and the EU.
The ITT specifies that the response should include a highly available, high performance model, but keeping costs in mind J As CRM does not have any geo-location features out of the box, what would be the best way to implement this?
Here are a couple of pointers:
· We have the option of using data centres in the head office, and the UK.
· I’m not 100% sure on bandwidth and latency at the moment. So the idea of having single environment at the head office is not yet decided.
· If we went with CRM servers at each data centre, and a SQL cluster at each, this gets messy with the need to replicate SAN’s across the WAN.
I know this is very vague, but I’m really just looking for information on how the back end would look on this, is a replicated SAN module a option, or should we really just be looking at a single location (head office) and tweaking the network to get optimal performance.
It is worth mentioning, that the ITT specified 500ms response times, which in our experience, is not even realistic in a completely local environment
