Archive: June, 2008

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “IBM Pricing Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System i, AS/400 – RISC Processor IBM 9406 #170 – 2159/2160/2164 RISC Processor CPW = 75/16 $4,200 [...]

We were very excited to find out recently that we have been awarded the System p Business Partner of the Year 2007 award by IBM. The award is based on a number of criteria including: our financial target set by IBM, our growth in System p, as well as how easy we are to work [...]

… make sure you send us the hardware configuration We often receive calls from our customers asking us to make an offer to purchase a server they have finished with. In order for us to correctly value your server and find every item of value in the server, we need to get the server’s configuration. [...]

Does your organization struggle to pull meaningful management information from a range of operational systems? Are you swamped by too many spreadsheets? Do you have too many management reports and not enough insight? Is it a complex, difficult process to obtain critical information from multiple departments and systems within your organization? Is it hard for [...]

VMware Certification For Computer Merchants As many of you would know, virtualisation is a very hot topic at the moment! Just recently, five members of the Computer Merchants Sales team attended the VMware Sales Professional (VSP) training course. The course was structured to educate a business partner on how to provide a virtualisation solution based [...]

Did you take advantage of IBM’s upgrade offer last December for the 810 or 825 machines? If so, you may have some leftover server parts still on your hands. As part of the upgrade offer, IBM will use some of your existing server parts for the new server and take away your older iSeries 810 [...]

If there is an alternative available, we’re happy to offer it We always take the time to understand your needs and what you are trying to achieve. We don’t expect you to be the expert in feature codes and part numbers - that’s something we can do for you. Instead, tell us what you want to do, and let [...]

Who do I go to for sourcing hardware in the USA? We are opening a store over there for the first time and it’s a big country, who can I trust? This was the question posed to us at Computer Merchants by a customer looking for a hardware supplier abroad. The answer? Computer Merchants of [...]

IBM Power Systems – the next generation systems for UNIX, IBM i and Linux clients Servers IBM Power Blade servers IBM Power 520 IBM Power 550 IBM Power 570 IBM Power 575 IBM Power 595 All IBM Power Systems (including earlier System i and System p models) Software Virtualization – PowerVM AIX IBM i Linux Availability [...]

The IBM System i and System p have been replaced with a new range of Servers called IBM Power Systems Power systems – with POWER6™ processor technology have the ability to run AIX®, IBM i, and Linux® operating systems simultaneously. In fact, regardless of which operating systems you are using the actual hardware will be [...]

Congratulations went to Roger Spraggon from Best & Less at the IBM Power Systems launch event for winning the Lamborghini ride to work. We trust that Roger will remember his work address is 41 Sudbury Street, Darra, Queensland! This is not the first time Roger has won a prize at an IBM event, of which [...]

I’d like to start by introducing myself. My name’s Sandie and I’ve been working at Computer Merchants for about 1 and a half months now. Last year I graduated from high school, so I’d never even been in an office environment until now! There are a variety of roles and tasks that are expected of [...]

At Computer Merchants we are here to help you, so as business is growing so is our product range. In today’s climate, from the smallest business to the largest corporation, IT departments are challenged by keeping costs within budget limits while ensuring the increasing and varying demands on their technology operations. HP Integrity servers are [...]

Computer Merchants are now specialized in Cisco SMB (less than 250 users on the network) after our sales staff attended and successfully completed the Select certification course. This allows us to access deeper discounts for a range of Cisco switching, routing and communications equipment. The course involved technical and sales training to help us understand [...]

Here’s a quick summary of services we offer our customers either here at Computer Merchants or onsite. IBM System i has been a great part of our business, but these days we are also seeing lots of BladeCenter services coming through. We have installed IBM System i, System p, System x, BladeCenter, HMC and Sun hardware, [...]

We’ve added a map to our Contact page The map is powered by Google Maps. It allows you to get driving instructions to and from our Head Office. This should help for those of you coming to Interaction at the Gold Coast later this year. You can also view the map with satellite photo overlays. [...]

When powering up IBM Blades in the IBM BladesCenters, you may notice that the lights on the keyboard flash. If the lights do not stop flashing, re-seat the management module. This module is hot swappable. Tip – don’t hit any keys until the lights stop flashing.

They say that if you don’t like the weather in Melbourne, then wait half an hour. Indeed! I recall October 2006 and October 2007 in Melbourne where that half hour never eventuated. It was pretty much cold and overcast for 3 days running. As beautiful as Melbourne is, I couldn’t say the same for the weather over the last two [...]

With over 40 years of history, it is no wonder that the Mainframe continues to set the standard for computing technology with even IBM competitors using the mainframe as their benchmark: “Fujitsu debuts powerful next generation of entry level servers with Mainframe-like performance and reliability” “Sun‘s high-end servers and storage systems combine the power of [...]

Monthly Hardware Specials As many of you would have already seen, Computer Merchants have introduced monthly specials across IBM, HP and Sun hardware. These specials are unique to Computer Merchants as we are dedicated to working with our suppliers to provide specials meeting your requirements and budgetary needs. Timely And Flexible These specials are timely [...]

As we pointed out in our December 2007 newsletter, we trade in HP equipment. Buying and selling HP equipment is becoming an increasingly important part of our product and service offering. That’s because we recognise that businesses today are often using a range of different vendors to supply their IT needs. We’ve developed quite a network of HP [...]

Over the past 6 weeks we have created a storm in the market over EchoStream – a Continuous Data Protection for AIX systems – and EchoCluster, the complementary product for High Availability fail over. Both have been met with so much enthusiasm from the AIX community. It seems that both these types of products have [...]

As I mentioned in our last newsletter, the firmware on the Sun StorEdge 3000 series arrays has been an issue for some end users. Interactive is on the ball. They are encouraging customers to upgrade the firmware levels on all their arrays within this family even before something goes wrong. They also encourage customers to [...]

Dear Margaret, A funny thing happened on my walk to work the other day. We’d had a terrible storm on the previous evening, with tumultuous rain and accompanying cacophonous thunder. Thankfully I had experienced little discomfort to my person from the unseasonal conditions but the effects of the tempest had left my pathway strewn with [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Rentals” for more information on the following items. IBM 9406-810 750/750 CPW, OS/400 V5R3, 2GB memory, 175GB disk, 30/60GB QIC tape, RAID, Ethernet and operations console 6 month [...]

Sure You Back Up Your Data! But how frequently? How much data would you lose in a disaster between backups? How quickly can you recover from a disaster? How long would you be without access to critical applications and data? Double-Take is a disaster recovery solution for the Intel world It captures byte-level changes as [...]

Can you help us with Sun hardware? We are currently looking to replenish stock, stock that has been moving out of the warehouse over the last 6 months. While it’s great that we’ve moved so much Sun stock and managed to keep so many of you happy, we’ve now found that our current stock is low. [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM Features IBM 9406/4494 16GB Main Storage for 9406-570 $12,800 IBM 9406/4454 8GB Main Storage for 9406-570 $4,650 IBM [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for your discount. Extended Offer - IBM System p Bundle Promotion IBM System P520 IBM 4 Way Power 5+, 1.65Ghz Processor IBM 16GB RAM IBM DVD RAM IBM [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM Features IBM # 5701 IBM 10/100/1000 BASE-TX Ethernet PCI-X $150 IBM # 5716 2GB Fibre Channel PCI-X Adapter [...]

Pricing does NOT include the following: GST Delivery Installation Plain English Terms and Conditions Apply. Subject to prior sale. Call us on 1800 777 111 and quote “Web Specials” for more information on the following items. Sun Servers Sun Fire V210 Server with: 2 X 1GHz, 2GB RAM, 2 X 36GB HDD $ 3,450 Sun [...]