RE: iSeries Hardware/software maintenance contract

I'm hoping that we can leverage this increased maintenance cost in such
a way that it can help justify upgrading to a new Power6 system with
LTO3 or LTO4 drives...

We might even try to sneak in a CBU system for our offsite DR Site!

So ... There just might be a "silver lining" to this maintenance
increase. <smile>


Kenneth
Kenneth E. Graap


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You may wish to look at new tape drives also. We replaced 3590's with
LTO3 drives.

We have some old 3590 tape cases I may give away at a LUG meeting.

Rob Berendt
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We have an older 550 system with several older 3590 tape drives, that
just came off a 5 year contract ... We expected it to go up.

It has been checked and double checked ... This is what IBM says they
will be charging us....


Kenneth
Kenneth E. Graap


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Massiello
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:53 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: iSeries Hardware/software maintenance contract

That is a huge increase, and I don't know of any of our customers who
have increased that much (if any!!!!). Is there anything unique about
your configuration. Did you ask for a breakdown so that you can see
what increased?



Pete

Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
www.itechsol.com