You are responsible for developing the IT system infrastructure for a start-up e-commerce company. The goal of the project is to develop a new e-commerce information system infrastructure for the e-commerce start-up company which sells eco-friendly products. The IT system design should include the hybrid infrastructure: 1) cloud services infrastructure, as the companys information technology will be implemented in a hosted solution in the cloud (including all applications, servers, data storage and data management, and security); and 2) on-site hardware and software components, including local area network - switches, local servers, office and warehouse computers, wireless access points, routers, firewalls.

TASK

Provide a detailed description of the design of the e-commerce company's hardware (database, proxy servers, network equipment) and software (analytics, big data, API, content management) from a size, scale, type, and interoperability standards perspective.