network thruput

Wed Jun 1 22:55:24 PDT 2005

Rich,

One good way is to look on CDW. When I'm doing a rough estimate on a 
proposal's bill of sales, I'll
go there and see what prices look like. You'd be surprised what CDW 
actually gives prices for. A lot
of enterprise geear is usually unpriceable without picking up the phone, 
or at least sending off an e-mail.

Just like all first prices, the prices on cdw's websites are not the 
prices you should be paying, if you talk
to a sales agent, you'll get better pricing. They're usually able to 
drop 10-20%.. More on cisco gear
which I don't think they're allowed to advertise their real prices.

VARS can be your best friend in this situation. I really like doing 
business with FusionStorm
(formerly Cat Technologies). I've been buying them for years now, and 
they've always treated
me well. If I want to compare 3 or 4 products I'll usually send my 
salesman an e-mail, and get
a quote the next day comparing the different options.

Over the past year, I've actually found one thing that I like Dell for. 
They do an OK job of supporting
their re-branded ADIC tape libraries. Their prices are phenomenal. I 
think I paid $13k to buy a
dual-drive, 24 slot, lto2 tape unit.  Dell's storage support, for tape 
units, is actually pretty good (I refuse
to comment on the rest of their support though.. Life is too short).  
Their unit doesn't yet support the
300gb sdlt tapes but I'm hoping it will soon, since I need to buy one of 
these units for a managed contract
my company is working on.

All in all, CDW is a great place to start. You will find some things 
that prices don't appear for, but they're
really good about getting back to you, without too much fuss, that day 
with pricing.

Michael

>michael at halligan.org wrote: 
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>>$150k? Ouch. For $20k nowadays you can get a 40 tape lto2 library
>>that has 200GB (uncompressed) tapes.. Another $5-$7k you can go
>>with the latest SDLT that's 300GB uncompressed (which I'm
>>looking at purchasing this week, hence the numbers in my head)
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>
>Where do you guys generally go to get ball-park quotes on tape units?  I'm
>trying to price out several backup options (buy a crateload more DLT-8000
>tapes for the 6-yr old library vs. buy a new lto library vs. backup to
>JBOD).
>
>I hate to go through the sales doids and all the dancing just to get
>ball-park quotes that my customer will likely re-quote through preferred
>vendors, etc....
>
>Is there anyone on the web advertising pricing (even list price) that I can
>scrape together something high-level with?
>
>Thanks!
>Rich
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