Special Savings on Servers

End of Financial Year Special Offers - Contract 846

(Midrange/Mainframe and Storage Computer Systems and Associated Software, Peripherals and Services)

Contract 846 provides a full range of high end servers and storage solutions to the whole of government. There are seven vendors who service this contract:

NSW Procurement has arranged for the following special deals for orders placed before June 30 2009:

 

Dell Australia

Blade M610
1xIntel(R) Dual Core E5502 Xeon(R) CPU, 1.86GHz, 4M Cache
73GB 15K RPM SAS 2.5 " Hot Plug Hard Drive (x2)
8GB Memory (4x2GB), 1066MHz, Dual Ranked RDIMMs for 1 Processor
4Yr (5x12) 4-hour Onsite Service
Starting from $2950.00* Ex Gst

EqualLogic PS5000 PS5000XV SAS 15K Storage Array
16x 450GB 15k SAS Hard Drives with Dual Controllers, NC
4 Years Complete Care Plus Full Supp, Same Day 4Hr Resp (Part+Labour)
Starting from $55,000* Ex Gst

Services Installation for PE Servers
Starting from $128.00* Ex Gst

Contact: Damien Margetts
Ph: (02) 8972 5728
email: damien_margetts@dell.com

 

EMC Australia

For purchase of any EMC Unified Storage system such as the NX4, NS20 or NS120 before June 30, EMC will provide a Data Elimination Assessment & report for your environment at no charge. This report will outline the improvement and operational savings possible from Data Elimination.

Contact: Tony Rakuljic - Senior Account Manager
Tel: 02 9925 7827 Mobile: 0418 425 291
Email: rakuljic_tony@emc.com Web: www.emc.com

 

Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd

Link: http://h50281.www5.hp.com/smboffers/?jumpid=ex_r11504_au_en/smboffers/smbspecialoffers/marcom

HP LeftHand P4300 12TB SATA Starter SAN Solution

Perfect for consolidating storage for Windows or Linux servers, the P4300 SATA Starter SAN delivers all features required to simplify storage and grow non-disruptively with your environment. Components:

  • 2x HP LeftHand P4000 enclosures each with 8x 750GB 7.2K SATA HDD
  • All inclusive HP SAN/IQ software
  • 3 Year Next Business Day 9X5 onsite support with software updates
  • HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Basic or Advanced Training (1 seat, expires after 90 days)
  • PN: AT016A - $24,990

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/p4000/index.html

HP StorageWorks 400t All-in-One Storage System

The revolutionary All-in-One Storage Manager (ASM) interface reduces the time, expense, and expertise required to keep up with rapidly growing applications. ASM eliminates complexity by automating storage tasks and presenting capacity in familiar application-centric terms, providing a simple way to control data growth. AK300A $3,255

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/aio400/index.html

HP EVA6400 3TB Introductory Offer

  • HP EVA6400 2C2D 3TB
  • 10 X 300GB drives
  • 4 X 1TB CommandView EVA license
  • Installation and startup
  • For a limited time only includes an upgrade to 3 years 24x7 warranty

$79,990 inc GST or $2,350 per month:

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/eva8400/index.html

HP D2D130 Backup System with Ultrium 920 SAS Tape Drive

The HP D2D130 Backup System provides reliable data protection for up to six servers in a single, self-managing device. It works with your backup software application to fully automate daily backup jobs, requiring fewer resources to manage your daily backup jobs, and also increases the reliability of your backups by reducing the risk of human error.

$7,106

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/d2d_bs/index.html

Contact: James Campbell
Ph: 02 9022 1072 / 0439 409 849
email: james.s.campbell@hp.com

 

IBM Australia Limited

ITS846 UNIX PROMOTION

Consolidate your UNIX or Linux systems to a POWER6 Blade, side by side your IBM Intel or AMD Blades.

Configuration includes:

  • 8 x 4.2GHz POWER6+ cores
  • 64GB Memory
  • 8Gb Fibre channel expansion card
  • 2 x 146GB disk drives
  • AIX or Linux operating system
  • Virtualisation licenses – LPAR mobility ready
  • 3 years hardware and system software maintenance

PRICE: $38,560 ex GST

Virtualise and optimise your UNIX infrastructure on POWER6. Provide your clients with a high performance, flexible platform and drive up system utilisation ...... get more from your assets!

Configuration includes:

  • 8 x 5.0GHz POWER6+ cores
  • 80GB Memory
  • Redundant fibre channel and Ethernet adapters
  • 2 x 146GB disk drives
  • AIX or Linux operating system
  • Virtualisation licenses – LPAR mobility ready
  • Hardware Management Console
  • 3 years hardware and system software maintenance

PRICE $110,000 ex GST

FREE ASSESSMENT

Do these offers look attractive? Thinking about how to take advantage of IBM equipment? For a limited period of time, IBM is offering a free Assessment to assist you in understanding the benefits of consolidating your environment to a Power 6 platform, looking at such items as power reduction, footprint savings, software licence cost reductions and cost of hardware acquisition. Call IBM before 30 June 2009, and we will assist you in analysing your environment and building a business case to make your infrastructure more dynamic and more cost effective.

Contact Louise Bremberg – just mention the ITS846 UNIX promotion
PH: 132 426
EMAIL: lbrember@au1.ibm.com

ITS846 STORAGE PROMOTION

IBM LTO 4 Autoloader Special
IBM System Storage TS2900 Tape Autoloader with 1 x LTO 4 Drive and 9 x cartridge slots - 1U Rack.
Includes 12 months 9 x5 warranty.
PRICE $5,200 ex GST

IBM LTO 4 Tape Library Special
IBM System Storage TS3100 Tape Library Express with 1 x LTO4 tape drive, 24 x cartridge slots, one data cartridge and one cleaning cartridge
Includes 12 months 9 x5 warranty. PRICE $7,500 ex GST

Storage System with 12TB Raw Capacity IBM System Storage DS3200 with a Single RAID Controller and SAS host connectivity. Scales to 48 drives.
Includes 12 months 9 x5 warranty.
PRICE $11,900 ex GST

Media Options
Ultrium 4 Data Cart (5-pack) $577.00
Ultrium Cleaning Cartridge $93.00

Contact Rod Cortez – just mention the ITS846 STORAGE promotion
PH: 132 426
EMAIL: rcortez@au1.ibm.com

 

Sun Microsystems Australia Pty Ltd

Link: http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/

Sun™ Storage 7000 Series Family - Radical simplicity combined with breakthrough price/performance:
Exponential data growth is challenging today’s IT managers to scale their storage capacity while still delivering high performance and staying within tight IT budgets. Sun can help ease this pain by offering the first unified storage solution that optimizes performance with Hybrid Storage Pools and delivers radical simplification of storage deployment and management all at a cost that redefines the economics of storage. The Sun™ Storage 7000 Series family helps simplify storage deployment and management with its unprecedented easy-to-use management interface, DTrace Analytics software, and self-healing capabilities. These features enable you to quickly find and fix issues, help minimize downtime, and can reduce the time and cost of deployment.

Sun Storage 7210 system (23TB):
The Sun Storage 7210 system is a mid-range configuration that radically simplifies enterprise storage management and offers extremely high density with up to 23 TB of raw capacity in a 4U system. This system includes one (1) write-optimized SSD, so it is ideal for organizations that require high volume throughput for write operations and yet do not require the extensive capacity available in the high-end Sun Storage 7410 system. Organizations can conserve rack space and achieve additional savings in energy consumption by deploying their application using the Sun Storage 7210 system. The system utilizes 7200 RPMSATA II drives to achieve high energy efficiency.

Sun Storage 7410C system (Two configurations offered: 44TB and 160TB):
This high-end unified storage system is offered in active-active cluster architecture with no single point of failure that enables high performance and high availability to maximize business productivity. It offers radically simplified storage management and either 44TB or 160TB of raw capacity (The unit can be upgraded adding additional trays for up 556TB* for extreme scalability). The Sun Storage 7410 system also delivers superior performance while reducing energy consumption with its inventive Hybrid Storage Pool architecture. Proposed configuration includes 4x 100GB Read Optimize SSDs and either 4x Write Optimized SSDs (44TB Option) or 8x Write Optimized SSDs (160TB Option).
PRICING:
7210 23TB - $73,700
7410 44TB - $162,800
7410 160TB - $323,250

All prices exclusive of GST.

Software Included at no additional cost:

  • File system: ZFS (128-bit capacity)
  • File level protocols: NFS, CIFS, HTTP, WebDAV, FTP
  • Block level protocol: ISCSI and FC Initiator
  • Data compression: Four levels of data compression available
  • Replication: 1:N, N:1, manual, scheduled, continuous
  • Monitoring: DTrace Analytics (for system tuning and debugging); Dashboard monitoring for key system performance metrics
  • Automated serviceability: “Phone-Home” capability with automatic case creation as well as email alerts
  • RAID: Striping, mirroring, RAID-Z, DP (RAID 5, 6)
  • Remote management: SNMP v2/v3
  • Snapshots: Read only, read/write (clone), restore
  • Directory services: NIS, AD, LDAP
  • Data security: Checksum data and metadata
  • Network services: NTP, DHCP, SMTP
  • Other: NDMP, ICAP, Role Base Access Control (RBAC)

Contact: Michael Keen
Ph: 02 9466 1458 / 0405 151 714
email: Michael.Keen@Sun.com

Please note that one, two and four socket x86 based servers should only be procured through the ITS2007 contract while other server machines including 8 socket x86 based servers or blade servers should be procured through the 846 contract.