Whether you’re looking for new hardware or used hardware, ask us how we can help. HP has the following range of servers on offer:

HP BladeSystem

The HP BladeSystem was designed to deliver a versatile, all-in-one infrastructure for customer sites that have limited ICT staff, but also need to be able to scale capacity as their applications grow, and to do so with high availability and reliability.

HP ProLiant Servers

HP ProLiant servers have been designed to drive greater efficiencies while providing greater insight and control over ICT infrastructure. Developed based upon decades of engineering and integration experience, they are designed to provide efficiency.

Entry-Level And Midrange HP Integrity Servers

Integrity is HP’s line of business-critical servers, designed to be used in the most scalable, mission-critical applications. Servers range from blades and entry-level rackmounted servers, to the top-of-the-line HP Superdome, and are intended to provide a broad range of customer choice built on the latest HP server technology.

Entry-class and midrange HP Integrity servers are designed to provide flexibility and expandability to suit the needs of a growing business. HP Integrity server blades are designed to operate side by side with HP ProLiant and HP StorageWorks blades under a unified management umbrella.

New HP, Used HP and HP Renew

While some business needs will demand new hardware, it may be worth considering HP Renew, which still provides you with the warranty that is included on new hardware. Alternatively, if you would like to upgrade the HP hardware you already have, then it might be the ideal time to consider a used upgrade with genuine HP hardware.

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Here’s some information from one of our suppliers on its commitment to reducing the environmental impact of its products and services throughout their lifecycle.

In 1992, HP launched its “Design for Environment” (DfE) program

Its aim was to reduce its impact on the environment by addressing all stages of the HP product lifecycle. This includes:

• designing energy efficient products,
• selecting the right materials,
• reducing parts and
• enabling recyclability.

HP has established a manufacturing process that will reduce its environmental impact. A goal to reduce combined energy consumption of its operations and products to 20 percent below 2005 levels by 2010 has been set by HP.

Since 1993, HP has saved 5.25 million tons of CO2 emissions through increases in HP LaserJet Instant-On Technology energy efficiency. This is equal to a year’s emissions for approximately 1.1 million cars.

And for a feather in Computer Merchants cap, HP promotes an Asset Recovery Services program that enables customers to return their products for refurbishment and recycling. HP diverted more than 1.7 million kilograms of IT equipment from Australian landfill through its Asset Recovery Services Programme in 2006 alone.

In 1981, HP was among one of the first technology companies to begin a hardware remarketing program (and Computer Merchants has been doing it since 1979!).

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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 designed to meet these strict, often conflicting requirements across a range of operating environments.

See the range of the latest HP integrity entry class servers:

HP Integrity rx2660 Server

• Processors
  • 2 Sockets
  • Intel Itanium 2 processors:
    • 1.6GHz 18MB (dual-core)
    • 1.4GHz 12MB (dual-core)
    • 1.6GHz 6MB (single-core)
• Maximum memory: 32GB
• I/O Slots: 3
• HDD: 8
• OS:
  • HP-UX 11i
  • RedHat and SUSE Linux
  • OpenVMS*
  • Microsoft Windows
• Virtualization:
  • HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE)
  • HP Integrity Virtual Machines
• Full HP Integrity rx2660 Server Tech Specs

HP Integrity rx3600 Server

• Processors
  • 2 Sockets
  • Intel Dual-core Itanium 2 processors (Montecito):
    • 1.6GHz 18MB (dual-core)
    • 1.4GHz 12MB (dual-core)
• Maximum memory: 96GB
• I/O Slots: 8
• HDD: 8
• OS:
  • HP-UX 11i
  • RedHat and SUSE Linux
  • OpenVMS*
  • Microsoft Windows
• Virtualization:
  • HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE)
  • HP Integrity Virtual Machines
• Full HP Integrity rx3600 Server Tech Specs

HP Integrity rx6600 Server

• Processors
  • 4 Sockets
  • Intel Dual-core Itanium 2 processors (Montecito):
    • 1.6GHz 24MB (dual-core)
    • 1.6GHz 18MB (dual-core)
    • 1.4GHz 12MB (dual-core)
• Maximum memory: 192GB
• I/O Slots: 8
• HDD: 16
• OS:
  • HP-UX 11i
  • RedHat and SUSE Linux
  • OpenVMS*
  • Microsoft Windows
• Virtualization:
  • HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE)
  • HP Integrity Virtual Machines
• Full HP Integrity rx6600 Server Tech Specs

Speak with your Computer Merchants Rep about the latest HP technology.

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• IBM System x Specials July 2008
• IBM System x Specials November 2008
• IBM System p (pSeries & RS/6000) Budget Guide February 2008

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 hot offers, however we can be flexible as we have the ability to make minor alterations to the configuration to suit your individual requirements.

Our previous IBM xSeries, BladeCentre and Storage Specials have proven to be extremely successful with many of you taking up on the opportunity to complete those necessary upgrades or even making some additions to your existing infrastructure.

Specials Links

• Current Specials – these change monthly
• Historical List of Specials

Call your Computer Merchants Sales Representative on 1800 777 111 for more details.

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We’ve developed quite a network of HP hardware providers

We can also arrange to consolidate your HP equipment onto an existing IBM maintenance agreement.

We regularly provide Specials on HP equipment, for example:

• Refurbished HP Specials June 2007
• IBM and Large and Open System Specials October 2007

Please note the above Specials prices may no longer be valid, and are made available for your reference only. Current Specials are on our Specials Page.

We can provide both new and used HP hardware so let us know if you have any HP needs and we’ll be glad to help. And keep an eye out for more HP Specials in the future.

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• Used Hardware

Bruce started with the company in 1998 to develop the open systems market. Our open systems team now consists of 7 sales specialists, focussing on:

• IBM System p (RS/6000),
• IBM System x (x86/Intel),
• IBM mainframe,
• as well as Sun and HP products.

Both Carl and Jas recently achieved 5 years of service at Computer Merchants

“I still feel like a ‘newby’ at Computer Merchants, given the depth of experience around me…”
said Carl.

And this may well be the case with the average tenure of current sales staff being over 7 years. If you want to work with a company that looks after its staff and want to benefit from an experienced sales team, then give the Computer Merchants team a go!

And well done Bruce, Carl and Jas!

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We have found that many of you, for various reasons, are using a combination of vendors. To be as helpful as we can, we’d like to make sure that we can supply all of the equipment you need regardless of who manufactures it.

While our business started in IBM hardware our growth in Sun and Cisco has been constant over many years and now we’d like to make sure that all of you are aware that HP is equipment that we can provide.

We’ve actually noticed a significant growth in our HP sales over the last couple of years and as a result we’ve developed a network of experienced HP hardware providers who can help with an upgrade of HP hardware or a complete system.

Why not see if we can help you with your HP business?

We can provide both new and used HP hardware so let us know if you have any HP needs and we’ll be glad to help.

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• How We Can Help You In These Challenging Times

HP Servers

HP rp7400 with 2 x 440MHz CPU, 4GB Memory, 2 x 73GB Drives $4,320
HP rp5470 with 2 x 875MHz CPU, 4GB Memory, 2 x 73GB Drives $8,240
HP Superdome with 4 x 1GHz CPU, 16GB Memory, 4 x 73GB Drives $83,250

HP CPUs

HP AB534A 800MHz PA-8900 dual CPU for rp3410/rp3440 Servers $6,440
HP AB527A 1GHz PA-8900 dual CPU for rp4440 Server $8,790

Sun CPUs – suitable for models V440, V490, V880, V480

X7445A for Sun V440 CPU/Memory board with 1 x 1.593 GHz CPU, 4GB Memory $5,150
X7451A-Z for Sun V445 CPU/Memory board with 1 x 1.593GHz CPU, 2GB Memory $5,420
X7269A for Sun V490 CPU/Memory Board with 2 × 1.2GHz CPU, 8GB Memory $14,480
X7272A for Sun V480/V880 CPU/Memory Board with 2 × 1.2GHz CPU, 8GB Memory $15,760
X7270A for Sun V490/V890 CPU/Memory Board with 2 × 1.35GHz CPU, 8GB Memory $19,150
X7273A for Sun V490/V890 CPU/Memory Board with 2 × 1.5GHz CPU, 8GB Memory $21,930

Sun Memory – suitable for models Netra 240, 440, Sun Blade 1500, V125, V210, V240, V250, V440

X7602A Sun 512MB Memory Expansion Kit $360
X7603A Sun 1GB Memory Expansion Kit $450
X7702A Sun 512MB Memory Expansion Kit $360
X7703R Sun 1GB Memory Expansion Kit $420
X7704A Sun 2GB Memory Expansion Kit $760

Sun Memory – suitable for models V880, V490, V890, V1280, E6900, E4900, 280R, 12K, 15K, E20K, E25K

X7051A Sun 2GB (4×512MB DIMMs) Memory $550
X7053A Sun 1GB (4×256MB DIMMs) Memory $380
X7056A Sun 4GB (4×1GB DIMMs) Memory $1,680
X7058A Sun 8GB (4×2GB DIMMs) Memory $6,170

IBM Mainframe

#2320 FICON Express SX $7,200
#3320 FICON Express2 SX (4-port) $17,800
#2319 FICON Express LX $5,300
#3319 FICON Express2 LX (4-port) $17,030
#1366 OSA-Express 1000BASE-T Ethernet $10,000
#3366 OSA-Express2 1000BASE-T Ethernet $14,600

IBM System p – I/O Adaptors

#2975 10/100/1000 ethernet $980
#5701 10/100/1000 ethernet $550
#5706 2-port 10/100/1000 ethernet $690
#5712/#1974 U320 SCSI adapter $690
#6228 Fibre Channel adapter $470
#6239 Fibre Channel adapter $1280
#5716 2Gb FC adapter $1280
#5758/#1905 4gbps HBA $1570
#5759/#1910 2-port 4gbps HBA $2020

IBM Storage

DS4300 $5,750
DS4300 (turbo) $11,240
DS4800 $26,600
EXP700 $3,200
#4610 500GB 7.2K SATA Drive $1040
#4615 750GB 7.2K SATA Drive $1590
#5207 146GB FC Disk $820
#5208 300GB FC Disk $1200
#5213 73GB 15K Disk $730
#5214 146GB 15K Disk $1200
#5222 146GB 10K Disk $1280
#5223 300GB 10K 2Gb Disk $1510
#5414 146GB 15K 4Gb Disk $1500
#5415 300GB 15K 4Gb Disk $1830

• IBM Large & Open System Specials June 2008
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We have learnt over the last 28 years that our success has been built on the values in our mission statement and it is from here that we will be moving forward into the future. Our mission statement is:

“Delivering great personalised service since 1979, our people, values and systems guarantee you are happy with the end result.”

We attribute our success to having great people who have a high standard of values and we provide our people with the systems necessary to support them. In a nutshell, for us to deliver great service to you our customer, along with our suppliers, we as business owners need to provide good service to our management team and staff by looking after and caring for them, just as we have for the past 28 years. Looking forward our vision is to continue and extend the personalised service we have always provided.

Part of this will involve additions to our sales team. Our award winning System i team (last year we won the IBM System i Business Partner of the Year 2005 and this year we took it up a notch by winning Best IBM System i Performance Asia Pacific 2007) will grow from six to seven members.

Our growth in recent years across the rest of the IBM brands resulted in Computer Merchants winning the National IBM Reseller of the Year 2006 for the Systems and Technology Group. Consequently, our System p team will soon grow from four to five members.

At a time when green is more topical than ever I am extremely proud to report that our oldest business (computer brokerage or computer recycling) continues to grow from strength to strength. Our SUN brokerage business continues to break records year on year enabling the SUN team to soon grow from two to three people. We will also extend further into CISCO and HP so that we can deliver a broader range of products to you.

In addition to expanding our sales team, we will continue to invest in our existing staff (through ongoing training) and in enhancing our systems. The entire team at Computer Merchants is dedicated to not only meeting, but exceeding your expectations. We are keenly aware of our first responsibility as listed in our Plain English Sale Conditions, namely: “TO ENSURE YOU ARE HAPPY with the end-result”.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our customers and suppliers for the support you have given us. I wish all of you the best for the 2007/2008 financial year and we look forward to assisting you anyway we can. If I can be of any assistance to anyone now or in the future. I’m always available at work on 1800 777 111, 09 307 0520 for our New Zealand customers, or on mobile +61 417 733 522.

Yours sincerely

Norman Jefferies
Managing Director

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“Delivering great personalized service since 1979, our people, values and systems guarantee you are happy with the end result.”

Our Mission Statement was developed by our current Managing Director, David McDade who has always believed that our people come first.

With this in mind, it is with much sadness that we are about to see one of our most valued people retire. Yes, David McDade has decided that it’s time to improve his golf handicap and practice his forehand skills at the local tennis club.

A good business does not become a good business by accident

It starts with great people and to that extent we take off our hat to David. David always believed in his people who collectively managed to turn Computer Merchants into a business that continues to go from strength to strength.

Today Computer Merchants is one of IBM’s most successful Business Partners

Computer Merchants began trading used IBM hardware in 1979. David began working as a sales representative for Computer Merchants back in late 1984 when the company was only 5 years old and moved on to Managing Director in 1992.

Back then, we pretty much only dealt in IBM equipment. These days, with David at the helm, our strengths are across all the IBM products ranges (IBM System i, IBM System p, IBM System z, IBM System x, IBM Storage and IBM Software) as well as Sun Microsystems, Cisco, HP, Lenovo and High Availability Solutions.

Computer Merchants became David’s family away from home

He was instrumental in setting up systems and procedures that form the basis of our business today.

One area where David demonstrated his care for our staff was when he moved our achiever’s trip from being a sales target to a Nett profit target. This meant that all staff shared in the success of Computer Merchants.

David’s way of saying thank you is to share a fun time away with everyone’s family at a resort where we can all get together and enjoy ourselves. Last year’s trip included about 60 people all up for a weekend away at Twin Waters resort on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. This is a tradition that is sure to continue.

It’s The People

At Computer Merchants, under David’s guidance, we acknowledge that it’s all the people in the business who contribute to the success of it. WHY? Because to David, he understood that it’s not just a sales representative who managed to make a sale that makes us successful, it’s the combination of every person involved in our business:

• the logistics staff that coordinated the pickup or delivery,
• the warehouse staff who packed & shipped the goods,
• the accounts staff who organize invoicing and
• the production staff who performed the engineering.

It truly is shared success

In addition to our Christmas parties for our customers, David introduced our “Suppliers Christmas Party”. David realized that our suppliers were just as important as our customers and each year we invite everyone from our vendors to our insurance agents and office cleaners, essentially anyone who’s contributed to the success of our organization.

David has always been proud and passionate about Computer Merchants. Today, we still trade with many of the same customers that David began dealing with some twenty something years ago. It’s been quite humbling to hear many past customers, suppliers and staff who have heard of David’s retirement tell us they want to be part of any celebration we have for him.

One senior IBM manager best put it by saying,

“you’d probably fill the whole of the Brisbane Convention Centre when you farewell David”

The Computer Merchants Family 

David, it never mattered how busy you were, you have always taken the time to help each of us grow and develop. You’ve always taken a genuine interest in every single person along the way. You have shown us that we are an important part of the Computer Merchants family.

Of course David wouldn’t have been able to achieve any of his remarkable accomplishments without the ongoing love, support and commitment from his beautiful wife Majella and his two boys Michael and Jonathan. We know Majella is excited at the prospect of having her husband on hand to get that long list of jobs done! The boys will be glad to spend more time with Dad as well.

David, on behalf of all of us we sincerely wish you all the very best in your retirement. You have worked long and hard to make Computer Merchants the success story it is today. Based on your framework, we can only go from strength to strength.

Everyone here thanks you for your guidance and friendship. Enjoy the fishing, tennis and golf – you truly deserve it.

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HP – Servers

HP rp7400 with 2 x 440MHz CPU, 4GB memory, 2 x 73GB drives $4,320
HP rp5470 with 2 x 875MHz CPU, 4GB memory, 2 x 73GB drives $8,240
HP rp8400 with 2 x 750MHz CPU, 4GB memory, 2 x 73GB drives $17,260
HP rp4440 with 2 x 800MHz PA-8900 CPU, 4GB memory, 2 x 73GB drives $32,560
HP Superdome with 4 x 1GHz CPU, 16GB memory, 4 x 73GB drives $84,320

HP – CPUs

HP AB534A 800MHz PA-8900 dual CPU for the rp3410/rp3440 servers $6,440
HP AB527A 1GHz PA-8900 dual CPU for the rp4440 server $8,790

• IBM Large & Open System Specials October 2007
• Sun Specials July 2006
• Sun Specials June 2007
• Sun Specials September 2008
• IBM Large & Open System Specials December 2007

Kylie

Kylie Mills joined our Customer Service team six and a half years ago as our receptionist. After moving from Reception, Kylie took on the Logistics role before moving up to her current role as Accounts. This means Kylie is a backup to all of our Administration roles.

Kylie is responsible for the accurate reporting of the company’s financials. Her role includes processing payments to our valued suppliers, receipting payments from our customers, processing payroll and processing BAS for the ATO to name only a few. Kylie is here to help should you have any accounts enquiries.

Danielle and Renee

Danielle and Renee are our Logistics team. Renee joined us three and a half years ago and also started as receptionist before taking on the
Logistics role. Danielle started with Computer Merchants as Logistics and has been with us almost two years.

Danielle and Renee arrange everything from entering your purchases and sales into our AS/400 system, organising freight and engineering, and making sure you are well informed each step of the way.

Mina is currently training in Logistics as part of our ‘cross-training’ goal to become a backup to our Logistics team.

Christina and Mina

Our Reception team includes the lovely duo Mina and Christina. Mina has been with the team for over a year now and Christina is our newest edition to the team.

Each time you call Computer Merchants you will be greeted by one of our friendly Customer Service Team members. One of Mina and Christina’s main responsibilities is to ensure your calls are answered and directed to the appropriate person. If you are unsure as to whom you should be speaking to, Mina to Christina can help you with that.

Mina has also been training in Logistics but what you may not know is that Mina has also been helping Kylie in Accounts over the last year.

Christina is currently training in all aspects of the reception role and will be trained in some accounts procedures too. The purpose of this cross training is to make sure your experience with Computer Merchants is straight forward with anyone being able to help you with your enquiry.

Ian and Shane

Our Warehouse team includes Ian and Shane. Ian has been looking after our warehouse and stock for nearly three years. The last six months saw the addition of Shane to the team.

Ian and Shane ensure your equipment is packaged safely and securely, and help Logistics organise freighting and crating if necessary.

Richard

Richard Kennedy has been with us for almost two years now. Richard is our Internal Engineer and is responsible for testing equipment to ensure your purchase is in perfect working condition. Richard’s background was with IBM as a service engineer and with us he has expanded his expertise to include Sun Microsystems, HP and Cisco products.

If you are ever in the area, we welcome you to drop in and see Richard’s workshop – you’ll be impressed with the range of equipment Richard can work on at any one time.

Our Customer Service team strives to give you the best possible service every time you deal with us

Should you ever have any feedback or suggestions we would love to hear from you.

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ACROSS

 3 We always guarantee the equipment we supply will be eligible for _______.
 5 Your Premium Supplier of IBM, Sun, HP and Cisco Hardware (2).
 9 Who presented Computer Merchants with the System i Partner of the Year Award for 2005?
10 If Equipment weight is over 100kg, we always build a crate for shipping rather than _______ the equipment.
13 We thank our customers for all their ________ by visiting them and putting on lunch once a year.
16 Every time we send a disk our _______ has formatted and reconfigured the hardware right here in our warehouse.
17 At Computer Merchants we Buy, Sell and _____.
18 Disk(2).
19 We value our _______.

DOWN

 1 We are famous for our _______ nuts.
 2 Our programmer can help you with your ______.
 4 At Computer Merchants we are renowned for our _______ (2).
 6 The part of your server that does all the thinking.
 7 Often used to provide disk protection and to improve disk performance.
 8 We always supply genuine IBM, Sun, HP _______ DIMMS.
11 Call your Computer Merchants Rep to _______ your system.
12 Talk to your Computer Merchants rep next time and ask about _______
14 Call your Computer Merchant rep to _______ in your redundant hardware.
15 Computer Merchants buy and sell, new and used IBM, _______ HP and Cisco hardware.

Fax your completed crossword to us for your chance to win a fabulous Harvey Norman gift voucher to the value of $100

Your Name: ________________________________________________________

Your Company Name: _______________________________________________

Your Email Address: ________________________________________________

Return to our Fax number: (07) 3279 3178 International: 61 7 3279 3178

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The 6 hazardous substances:

• Lead (Pb)
• Hexavalent chromium (Cr +6)
• Mercury (Hg)
• PolyBrominated Biphenyl (PBB)
• Cadmium (Cd)
• PolyBrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE)

These substances are unsafe to humans and our environment. Their restriction will assist with a cleaner and greener environment for generations to come. Wikipedia has a very indepth article on the subject: “Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive“. See also the UK RoHS site.

All large manufacturing companies will be leading the way to have the substances above restricted in the equipment they manufacture. What we will see is all new equipment with this RoHS compliancy. Examples of large organisation’s responses to RoHS include:

• Product Content Declaration for IBM Suppliers
• Baseline Environmental Requirements for Supplier Deliverables to IBM
• HP’s Product Environmental Requirements

Now just because you don’t have RoHS materials, don’t worry. It won’t matter, just remember to dispose of your equipment safely so it doesn’t contaminate the environment.

Many customers like you have sold equipment to Computer Merchants. Some of this equipment is obsolete and of no commercial value so we arrange for the disposal to be performed by our certified partner Admax. This ensures the impact on our environment is kept to a minimum.

See also: Your Refurbished Hardware (How We Recycle The Computer We Buy From You), Green Since 1979 And Getting Greener, our Environment Articles.

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