RE: iSeries Disk Pricing

["Fritz Hayes" <fhayes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks John,

The news about pricing on par with the pSeries (and competitors) is
great to hear.  Also, the bit about participating in a SANS is also
music to the ears!


Best Regards

Fritz Hayes
Atwater Associates
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|
| As to the specific question regarding disk, as part of this
announcement
| we
| are announcing significant price reductions on 18 and 35 GB drives  -
in
| effect providing them at or near the same price as pSeries and the
Unix
| competition including HP and Sun.  This provides Fritz with the
ability to
| purchase and configure a set of disks at nearly the same price as our
| pSeries system, with the added advantage of our integrated storage
| management to do all of the disk and volume management most Unix
customers
| have to hire administrators for or purchase additional software for.
| Also,
| with this announcement we are making it much more cost-effective to
| utilize
| Storage Area Network Solutions like Shark.  With V5R2, we now support
| fibre
| channel connectivity to a SAN switch fabric, requiring less FC
connections
| than before to utilize tape or disk attached via SAN.
|
| Thanks,  Jim
|
| Jim Herring
| iSeries PDT Leader for 2002
|
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|
| Kim
| Thank you very much for a very informative web cast today.
| The iSeries proposition has never been stronger.
| Saw this and thought this question might have been missed today.
| If the pSeries and xSeries have gained from our contributions to
eLiza,
| when can we be like them as the below post indicates?
|
| Respectfully
| John Carr
|
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|
| What I really want, like many others, is some type of inexpensive,
| reliable disk that the iSeries (i.e. IFS) can use, just like AIX, W2k
| and other OS's.  Do you see any sign of it with v5r2 or the new
| equipment?  Wouldn't it be wonderful to add storage to the iSeries at
| the same cost as p or x Series?
|
|
| Best Regards
|
| Fritz Hayes
| Atwater Associates
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