Re: iSeries Disk Pricing - your questions

Anne,

        Obviously this marketing person has never watched the iSeries
implementation of Websphere
initialize on a system that had more than enough room, but no disk arms !!

        JMS ...
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Jeffrey M. Silberberg
CompuDesigns, Inc.
Atlanta, Ga. 30350-5640
(770) 399-9464

>
> From:  "Anne Lucas"
>
> 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.
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> spreads!
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