So what have I been doing? Well, we had 70 people over for dinner Thursday night. That took a little recovery time.
If you are buying, or are interested in buying Sun StorageTek storage, check out the new Price List.
Twice as many items as the last one. Most all cables and such. Almost all software. Let me know if I’ve missed something.
The usual caveats apply.
More updates coming soon!
As part of StorageMojo.com’s continuing effort to level the playing field between vendors and customers, we are pleased to place on line two more price lists: Sun’s StorageTek and Network Appliance. It also drives traffic as well.
You can also click on the Price Lists tab above to see all the price lists we have available.
In order to help buyers of storage products - and to drive traffic to StorageMojo.com - we publish vendor price lists.
StorageMojo.com has just added 14 new vendors to the list: Avamar, CreekPath, Data Domain,EqualLogic, FalconStor, Finisar, Isilon, Lefthand, Nexsan, Panasas, Riverbed, StoreAge, Texas Memory Systems (big SSD’s) and Xiotech. We added 3PAR and Pillar Data earlier this week to the existing lineup of ADIC, Brocade, Dell, EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, McData, Qlogic, Quantum and Seagate.
Pay Me Now AND Pay Me Later
These can also be handy for vendor evaluation and competitive analysis. Most of the vendors, for instance, mark up disk drives anywhere from 3-5x. Since you will be buying a lot of disk drives for upgrades over the life of the product, maybe you’d prefer a vendor with a lower mark up. If you’ve done a few years doing pricing you know how the game is played.
Please comment to let us know how to make these more useful. Fun, no.
Update Fixed the broken link. Sorry.
The good folks at 3PAR have been working hard for years to bring you a fast and reasonably scalable storage array. Now you can know how much it will cost. Feast your eyes on a 3PAR Price List.
StorageMojo.com compliments the 3PAR product management for not nicking the customer for a lot of power cords and such, unlike Pillar. Good luck!
Want to see the Pillar Data price list? You’ve come to the right place. You know, the startup Larry Ellison spent $150 million on, peering deep into his rearview mirror.
Click here.
Weirdest thing about the price list: all the little under $5 pieces. Yo, Larry, this is hardware! It’s cheaper just to throw them in the box than to spend a couple of hundred dollars processing an order. Lose ‘em!
Seriously, did you know that Walter P. Chrysler, a top factory manager for GM, was the last man to start a successful automobile company in the U.S.? That was in the early 1920’s.
Larry, meet Walter. Walter meet . . . where’d he go?
After reviewing the impressive Google File System, I wondered about Google’s competitors: MSN, AOL and Yahoo. Is it possible to quantify the economic advantage of GFS over conventional enterprise architectures?
NetApp’s web site notes that Yahoo Mail uses NetApp equipment. They also claim in one of their 10-K reports:
NetApp success to date has been in delivering cost-effective enterprise storage solutions that reduce the complexity associated with managing conventional storage systems. Our goal is to deliver exceptional value to our customers by providing products and services that set the standard for simplicity and ease of operation.
Uh-huh. Like those 520 byte sector disk drives with the Advanced Margin Enhancement Technology?
The Smackdown: Yahoo vs Google
The idea: compare the revenue returned for each dollar of IT capital cost for two tech-savvy, leading-edge internet firms. For every dollar they invest in IT, what do they get back in revenue? Capitalism 101. Since IT is virtually all they do, the differences should be stark
I chose Yahoo! to compare to Google, since they are roughly similar in revenue, they each run always-on data centers with at least 100,000 servers, and they offer a similar range of services. AOL and MSN are both part of larger companies, so digging out numbers would be difficult if not impossible.
Another YHOO/GOOG similarity: Yahoo also uses open source software: FreeBSD, Apache, and Perl. So the differences between Yahoo and Google should be mostly hardware, not software, except for, I’d guess, proprietary management software. And since storage is typically the largest part of IT capital expense, that hardware should be mostly storage. NetApp for example.
Stalking the Wild IT Numbers
This is where I explain where the numbers come from. If you are a financial type you’ll want to know, but most of you can skip ahead to The Bottom Line. The numbers are conservative. The YHOO problem is worse than they indicate.
The nice people at EMC sent me a link to a PDF version of the EMC price list. You can download it from here. They confirmed that it is a current price list and that, oddly enough, EMC PR believes that EMC price lists are company confidential. So let’s not tell them otherwise.
Get one while you can.
For all the abuse StorageMojo.com heaps on EMC they are good sports.
Thanks, guys.
StorageMojo.com is pleased to announce the availability of pricing information for most of the major players in the storage industry. Whether you are budgeting, comparing, curious about options or just wondering if your company can afford a SAN, these guides offer assistance without a lot of phone or sales calls. To find them click on the Price Guides link on the navbar above.
Please direct comments to the handy comments box. Suggestions to improve usefulness most appreciated.
Caveats
These are prices that a large buyer might expect to pay. Small purchasers should expect to pay more. If you see any problems please notify StorageMojo.com. While StorageMojo.com believes the information to be correct we cannot be responsible for any errors or omissions.
