RE: Geared Down, Low Cost Power IBM i Box Rumored - How small is your shop?

We have two that are dedicated to our customer online transaction processing. They are mirrored to each other. They were old P05 - Power 5 520s that used less than 10% CPU. We just upgraded both to new Power 8 machines in the P05 for $25,000 USD each. Way more CPU than we needed. But we can more our WebSphere from Intel to these and save licensing cost on the WebSphere as it appears to be included on the boxes. We never have more than 3 people on them but we have 4 IIS servers, an IVR system, and a communication node that connect to deliver the transactions. Never a person connecting except our Operation department or Programming department for maintenance and updates. I must say that our transactions are sub second response unless we go out to a third party for verification which takes almost a second to get a response from an XML post via HTTPS.

Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Cagle
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2017 9:14 AM
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Subject: Geared Down, Low Cost Power IBM i Box Rumored - How small is your shop?

This 'mini' i might be the perfect option for my shop. I'm curious if there are any other shops out there as small or smaller than us?

We never have more than 10 people on our System i 520 at any one time; usually just 5 or 6. Anyone else?