RE: iSeries Disk Pricing - your questions -- MIDRANGE-L

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I may be all wrong here, but was the performance ratio 4/3 between the 4gb
and the 8gb drives that they could move from 16 to 12, but there is no
corresponding difference between the 8 and the 17 thus they can't move
from 12 to a smaller number?

Rob Berendt
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"Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@attbi.com>
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Anne,

I may have started the trend in the thread by making the observation
that for many customers who use their iSeries primarily for
database-intensive work there may be no overall cost reduction based
upon the decrease in cost of the 17 GB drive.  It really wasn't meant to
be a slam or to dwell on negative issues, it was just an observation.
Nothing in the note below contradicts my point.

Perhaps I've been dealing with your legacy customers too long.  Those
folks who are running their businesses on JD Edwards World, MAPICS,
BPICS and the other manufacturing/distribution packages which used to be
the foundation of the IBM midrange.

Yes, being able to run e-business, collaboration, and web enablement
workloads on the extra disk space and extra processor cycles is a good
thing.  But for someone who is replacing a model 500 with 16 4GB drives
and moving to an 820, a year ago they would have spent $1,400 apiece for
12 8 GB drives.  Now they will spend $1,400 apiece for 12 17 GB drives.
That was my only point.  Their cost of computing has not decreased.  For
some of them the ability to run additional workloads has some
importance, for others it is totally irrelevant.

Regards,
And thanks for being responsive,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
[mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]
> On Behalf Of Anne Lucas
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:09 PM
> Subject: iSeries Disk Pricing - your questions
>
> OK .... here's the response of disk pricing....   let me know if you
have
> other questions/comments...   feel free to send them to me directly.
>
> Anne,  here's a response for your to post to midrange-L
>
> Question: "If I am an iSeries customer whose workload requires me to
buy
> based on arms of DASD, how does announcing a price decrease on 17.5GB
DASD
> down to 8.5GB prices help me?"
>
> Answer:
> One of the specific objectives of our April 29 announcement was to
make
> managing growth and adding new workloads to your iSeries simpler and
more
> affordable. While many workloads and applications that run on iSeries
are
> and will continue to be arm dependant, most of the e-business,
> collaboration and Web enablement work is more sensitive to disk
capacity
> and memory size.
>
> The specific price decreases that we announced on large memory cards,
> large
> capacity disk drives, Capacity Upgrade on Demand, and Model 270
> interactive
> features are intended to enable the addition and consolidation of
these
> applications on your iSeries more affordable than ever.  The disk
price
> decrease provides twice the capacity at the same price. Many customers
> will
> now be able to acquire disk capacity for additional growth, or
implement
> RAID or mirrored disk protection less expensively than before.
>
> Looking at the complete solution requirements shows the full impact of
the
> price reductions. For a customer who needs 5250 interactive support
and
> was
> considering a Model 270-2248 (150 processor CPW), they can now acquire
an
> e-business capable Model 270 (1070 processor CPW)  solution at nearly
35%
> less than before.  A Model 830 customer who is adding e-business work
to
> their system can benefit from pricing that is reduced well over 50%
from
> before.
>
> If you as a customer can now have multiple workloads on one server, it
> reduces your overall total cost of ownership far beyond what you'll
see at
> initial time of purchase. You'll also be able to take full advantage
of
> the
> wide range of iSeries systems benefits.
>
>
>
> ************
> Have a great day! and .... Enthusiasm is like a ripple in the water...
It
> spreads!
>
>
> Anne C. Lucas, Project Exec, iSeries Nation and iSeries Marketing -
> www.ibm.com/eserver/nation1
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