RE: Help me Justify iSeries

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You make good points, John.  And certainly with IBM moving towards
larger drives, the price point is moving.  I'm still a little unsure of
some of your points; if you have no AV and no backups in your network,
that means you have no Windows machines at all.  That's an unusual
configuration.  But the point is still that you have to take everything
into account.

To properly assess the situation, you have to address all of the
following variables, as they apply: percentage of static storage to
dynamics storage, existing network infrastructure, application type,
disaster recovery, availability requirements, and so on.  The answer is
different in a shop with lots of available space on their iSeries and no
Windows machines than in a shop with a small maxed iSeries running email
on a Windows server.

Joe


> From: Jones, John (US)
> 
> Granted, Joe, I'm optimizing some.  But my point was the opportunity
> cost of storing that many images.  I actually buy the biggest &
fastest
> disks available so my current i5 uses 70GB 15Ks and my new one will
use
> the 140GB 15Ks.  But even one of those 140GB 15K drives is under $5K
> list and there ar no administrative or maintenance costs, ever.  As
long
> as you've got the disk slot open it's an easy install and integrates
> with everything you're already running.  Your backups don't change,
you
> still don't need AV software, your rack space doesn't grow, your power
> requirements don't really grow, your KVM requirements don't grow, etc.