iSeries Disk Pricing - your questions

["Anne Lucas" <alucas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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