Category: IBM

Please note that the first edition of the January 2009 IBM Budget Guides contained out of date pricing These have since been updated and corrected, and a printer-friendly version is now available for download on each page: IBM System p (pSeries & RS/6000) Budget Guide January 2009 IBM System i (iSeries & AS/400) Budget Guide [...]

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 p, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5 $8,700 IBM 9111 520 [...]

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 $4,400 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 “IBM Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM Machines IBM 9406/810 P10 750/570 CPW 2GB/200GB V5R2 QU1 XW1 $11,000 IBM 9406/520 P20 0/3300 CPW 8GB/980GB $31,000 [...]

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 Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM Tape Drives Used Drives – in stock, ready to ship IBM 3590-B1A Magstar Tape Drives $700 IBM 3590-E1A [...]

If you are contemplating upgrading to HMC Code 7.3.3., here are a couple of tips that may assist you when you perform the install. After you have imported your system plan or created your LPAR’s, you may get this error when you open up a 5250 console session: HMC not configured for this LPAR and [...]

Whenever we mention Tivoli Software to many of our customers, they immediately think of TSM – Tivoli Storage Manager. It’s a product that is well respected for its features and its ability to manage complex backup and restore environments. But Tivoli is so much more than just management of storage. Tivoli is a suite of [...]

On a recent trip to Melbourne, one of our reps had the opportunity to walk through probably the largest collection of operational mainframes in Australia, including some fairly recently installed z10′s (love the green touch IBM!). Rows and rows of 3494 tape libraries are also an impressive sight and a reminder of the changing landscape [...]

The X-Force research and development team research and monitor the latest threat trends, and help advise customers and the general public on how to respond to emerging and critical threats. The practice of disclosing exploit code along with a security advisory has been the accepted practice for many security researchers. However, according to the X-Force [...]

IBM System Storage DS3200 The IBM System Storage DS3200 is an external storage enclosure specifically designed for the small and medium business (SMB). The DS3200 addresses the top concerns of the businesses managing increasing demand for capacity, data availability, and functionality. 3 Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host interface and drive expansion technology Easy to [...]

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 Budget Pricing Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p / RS/6000 System p5 520 – 1way [...]

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 Budget 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 $4,600 [...]

Strictly available until 12th December 2008, or while stocks last. 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 Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM 2U Rack Server Standard Web Price: $7,868.48+ GST [...]

Finally! Here are our photos from the 2008 IBM Interaction User Group Conference, held at the Marriott Resort, Surfers Paradise. This year we were voted Top Exhibitor at the conference. From the photos below (click to enlarge), we think you might see why so many people had fun at our booth. If you have some [...]

Challenging times Everywhere we go it seems that the news is rather bleak with regard to the global economy. Most of the commentary is reporting on past events (the majority being about losses instead of gains) and very little being able to provide help or insights into the future. Our business relationships are much like [...]

Here’s an extract from IBM’s website giving some insight to IBM’s green direction: Energy supply, consumption, and environmental impact are now part of the IT decision process As energy costs rise and concerns for the environment make the front page, IT managers have a new responsibility in addressing energy efficiency concerns in the IT infrastructure. [...]

*noMAX reinforced its market leadership in the Australia and New Zealand region by recently signing up its 60th customer The result reflected not just another solid year of growth in this region but also signaled another very strong global performance for the company where it now has a presence in over 40 countries world-wide. This result [...]

Server Consolidation is the hottest topic in the IT world at this point in time Many businesses are taking the opportunity to reduce costs through consolidating multiple servers into fewer, more powerful systems with server virtualisation, or creating multiple virtual servers on a single physical server. By streamlining the management of your computing environment and [...]

Server Optimization and Integration Services can help you create a cost-effective, scalable, flexible and resilient server infrastructure. This will allow you to support business applications using industry-leading practices based on IBM experience and intellectual capital. These services can help you: Secure a future-state server environment Provide a more flexible and responsive IT infrastructure Improve operational efficiencies and [...]

What’s all this talk of migrating all your Intel servers into one making less zeroes on your monthly power bill and no more chaotic computer rooms with servers and cabling for you to get lost in? Virtualise this, virtualise that! The term has been passed around like a hot potato and many of you may [...]

Actively Manage your Energy with IBM’s Active Energy Manager Active Energy Manager (formally IBM Director PowerExecutive) measures, monitors, and manages the energy components built into IBM systems enabling a cross-platform management solution. Active Energy Manager is an extension of IBM Director that supports BladeCenter, POWER Systems and System x servers. It also provides a source [...]

Here at Computer Merchants we, like IBM, have noticed the growth over time in the Blades and BladeCenter market. Many of you have heard about blades, in fact, many of you are probably running blades. However for those of you wanting to know more about this new technology, please read on! What is a BladeCenter Blade [...]

Not only does the POWER6 processor provide a greatly increased processing rating, but has also gained recognition in proving that it is far more efficient in the way it uses power to run. The POWER6 processor has several new features, including: power trending, power saver mode, and thermal reporting. So what do these features do [...]

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 Budget Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p / RS/6000 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5 [...]

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 Budget 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 [...]

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 xSeries Machine IBM x3250 Single CPU 2GB/320GB $500 IBM Switches IBM 2109/F16 IBM 16 Port Switches $2,500 Printers [...]

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 Servers IBM P550 Power 5 2 WAN 1.5Ghz Power 5 Processor, 8GB Memory, 4 x 146GB Disk Drives [...]

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 iSeries Machines IBM 9406/520 – 0/3300 8GB/980GB V5R4 P20 $33,000 IBM 9406/810 – 0/2700 CPW – 4GB/200GB V5R4 [...]

This month we added another newsletter to our web site from the print archives. This time, we’re revisiting December 2005. Highlights of December 2005 IBM iSeries Technical Update 2005 Hardware Management Consoles – A One Minute Guide IBM Support Line How To Reset The Dedicated Service Tools Password  Buying Hardware From Computer Merchants How We Streamline [...]

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 Budget Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p, RS/6000 1way 1.5GHz $7,500 IBM 9111 520 System [...]

Since the relaunch of our web site in December 2007, we’ve been slowly adding our older newsletters. This month, we added our newsletter from July 2006. Even though these articles are 2 years old, there is still quite a lot of information that is just as relevant as ever. Highlights of July 2006 15 Point [...]

As a service to our customers, we’re making available updated tables for IBM zSeries MIPS values. These are based on current models and use a different set of ratings to our previous zSeries Reference Tables. z800 – 2066 Model MIPS MSU | Model MIPS MSU | Model MIPS MSU 0E1 41+IFL 7 | 0X2 160 [...]

Strictly available until 30th July 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 “Web Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM 2U Rack Server Standard Web Price: $7,215.44 + GST $4,975 + GST [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Strictly available until 30th May 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 “Web Specials” for your discount. BRAND NEW IBM System p Bundle Promotion IBM SYSTEM P520 IBM 4 Way Power 5+, 1.65Ghz Processor [...]

Here’s a snapshot of the IBM zSeries range These machines are all available on the broker market and represent great processing value starting at below $500 / MIP. Our zSeries machines all come with IBM MSQ banding. This means that when IBM install the equipment, they will make sure that the systems are in good working [...]

We have some very exciting news for our IBM System p customers! After a 12 month search, we’ve found a product that provides real time data replication for AIX. The product is called “EchoStream for AIX“. Even though it is new to Australia and New Zealand, EchoStream is already installed in many sites world-wide. EchoStream [...]

Do you want to keep ‘green screen’ functionality but have an easier to use, more modern system? Many System i customers have applications that are developed in-house using RPG. We know of one case of a customer’s application which provided excellent coverage of their corporate distribution and manufacturing requirements. However, some of the specific challenges [...]

The successor to IBM Query/400 has arrived in the form of DB2 Web Query Based on the latest Web 2.0 and AJAX web technologies, DB2 Web Query allows any enterprise browser to be used for the user interface. Several of the key features include: WYSIWYG Report ‘painter’ Web Based HTML and PDF viewing Pivot and [...]

HansaWorld are an international ERP and CRM vendor with over 70,000 installations world-wide! They offer 3 major advantages over other applications on the market: Strong Integrated Customer Relationship Management Mobile solutions for field staff remote access Single integrated database approach aimed at the mid-range market Do You Have Mobile Staff? HansaWorld’s products work with hand-held [...]

I feel the need…the neeed for speeeed” “Perhaps it wasn’t quite up to the Maverick and Goose performance from the legendary Top Gun movie but when Jas and Carl attended the recent IBM Top Gun training, they mixed it with the elite of IBM sales professionals throughout Australia and New Zealand. IBM Top Gun gives [...]

Are you looking for a High Availability solution for your System i but don’t really know where to start? For a limited time we are offering a no cost evaluation of your current environment, normally valued at about $2000 AUD which will help to answer a lot of your questions. Already taken up by a [...]

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. Complete IBM Systems Machine: IBM 9406 825 - OS: V5R4 - CPW: 3600/3600 - Tier: P30 Memory: 2GB - Tape: 3581 H23 LTO [...]

Hello from the Computer Merchants Logistics Team! As you will read in the Tech Section of this month’s newsletter, it was our responsibility to organise the shipping of the System i570 to Bank of South Pacific in PNG. Our responsibilities included working closely with production and our on-site engineer Richard to track the progress of [...]

Many of us who have been around a while will know that partitions in an IT environment are nothing new, particularly in a mainframe environment. However in the past few years the concept of Logical Partitioning has made a resurgence. The benefits to users are many, including: Reduces floor area, reducing real estate usage Ability [...]

Success Story Our engineer Richard recently had the pleasure of travelling to Papua New Guinea to work with the great people from Bank South Pacific at their Port Moresby office. Richard was responsible for the installation and set-up of their new i570 Power 6+ System i, with 2 Frames, 5 LPARs and over 5 TB [...]

So far it has been a glorious 2008 Fantastic weather, dwindling wine supply and Wellington Sevens fever has hit town. Hi, I am Samantha McBride and I am the Regional Coordinator for Interaction Australasia. A little about me I was moved to New Zealand as a teenager and haven’t looked back – and why would [...]

Just a quick note to let you know that we are able to source 1-5 year old Lenovo desktops and notebooks, as well as IBM System x servers and related products – complete with warranty! Some of the key benefits of this are: Fast delivery, stock readily available Competitively priced You can buy the exact [...]

IBM’s POWER6 processor, combined with enhanced virtualization, energy efficiency and near-continuous availability features, offer exceptional price and performance for entry-level, Small and Medium Businesses wishing to run UNIX or Linux environments. IBM energy management and browser-based virtualization software makes it easier to achieve increased server utilization and energy efficiency by using EnergyScale capabilities and optional [...]

Congratulations to Bruce who celebrated 10 years with Computer Merchants in February 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 [...]

Dear Margaret,I’ve just got to share! I visited a zoo today – haven’t they changed! Lovely glass windows to look through to beautiful rooms, no more of the harsh bars and ugly concrete enclosures. And very high tech you know! They can control the temperature so the animals don’t get too hot – or too [...]

What Is Virtualisation? Modern computer hardware was originally designed to run on a single operating system and a single application. Virtualisation breaks that bond – making it possible to run multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same server at the same time. This solution increases server utilization (typically from 5-15%, to 60-70%) and [...]

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 Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM Mainframe IBM 2066-120 6GB, 6xOSA,4xICC, 24xESCON $150,000 IBM 2086-350 8GB, 16xESCON, 4xFICON $168,750 IBM System p IBM 2848 [...]

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 System RISC Processor CPW = 75/16 [...]

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. System i, AS/400 – RISC Processor IBM 9406 #170 – 2159/2160/2164 System RISC Processor CPW = 75/16 $4,200 [...]

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. System p, RS/6000 – Systems IBM 7026 6M1 System pSeries 660 Model 6M1 $5,600 IBM 7028 6X4 System [...]

Strictly available until 28th February 2008 or while stocks last 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 Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM 2U RACK SERVER IBM x3650 2U Quad Core [...]

This year Computer Merchants attended the Interaction Conference in Melbourne. Interaction is the largest annual gathering of IBM solution providers for IBM Servers in Australia and New Zealand, and an invaluable educational event for IBM users. They are exposed to all of the latest IBM solutions, and the impact they can have on business today. Best [...]

Here at Computer Merchants, our approach in assisting customers to connect their “green screen” legacy systems onto Internet sites, extending their functionality through rich portal and web-based interfaces has lead us to team up with a company called Eos Solutions. Eos offers solutions and services for Lotus Notes and Domino, IBM Web Content Management, IBM [...]

At Computer Merchants, we’re able to help customers get the performance they need and save money by buying refurbished Mainframe systems instead of buying new units. Success Story  One customer recently needed to move a Mainframe workload from unsupported hardware to a new system, but the price of a new Mainframe server made this prohibitive. [...]

IBM has announced their new “PROJECT BIG GREEN“. IBM will be redirecting $1 billion per year across its businesses, mobilising the company’s resources to dramatically increase the level of energy efficiency in IT. This was established after IBM observed that businesses are beginning to face real challenges with regard to energy consumption and costs. A [...]

Hi everyone, how did you find Interaction this year? A little different I hope! I have to say it was great to meet so many of you that I hadn’t met before. And I was very pleased that the whole conference went off without a hitch – as it normally does – but you are [...]

So many businesses today are running a range of machines across different vendors 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 [...]

Earlier this year, IBM debuted new LTO 4 hardware These units incorporate the latest generation of advanced Linear Tape-OpenTM (LTO) technology, and are suited for handling the backup, save and restore, and archival data storage needs of a wide range of small systems as single drives. Or when configured into libraries, LTO 4 can handle [...]

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 Specials” for more information on the following items. IBM Disk Arrays Fiber #1722-60U FASTT600 TURBO + 5 x 146GB FC DISK $12,365 IBM Processors #5221 6 way [...]

Many organisations use technology leasing as a way to conserve capital Technology can be expensive and typically competes for capital funding with other investment or expenditure opportunities. Due to its inherent flexibility, leasing offers innovative ways to acquire IT equipment that can reduce much of the risk and uncertainty in purchasing new technology and increase [...]

A little while ago we realised, from our customer feedback forms, that many companies were stuck with older generation System p hardware. This was mostly due to cost of upgrade and migration issues. These systems also had high maintenance costs due to the hardware age – in fact, maintenance was ranging between $10k – $50k [...]

The IBM BladeCenter S is a new, completely integrated server infrastructure platform with a high degree of flexibility, scalability and manageability. It’s ideal for small and medium sized businesses, or for branch offices of bigger companies.It offers a powerful, yet simple IT infrastructure. You simply plug the BladeCenter S into the standard office outlet, and [...]

Passwords are one of those things that are so easy to forget or misplace. But it’s really important you let us know your relevant passwords when we are buying equipment from you. Cautionary Tale Recently we purchased several IBM 2109 switches that customers were upgrading from (both F and S models). Some of the switches had [...]

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 Specials” for more information on the following items. New From IBM IBM 9407/515 3GB Memory 240GB Disk 35 User Licence/ DVD Rom/ 2 Line Wan/ Raid & [...]

Previously, we’ve talked about the IBM Jumpstart program. We received a great response regarding the FREE System-i half day course and the more in depth three day course. Well, in addition to the Jumpstart courses, IBM Education has introduced customised training for whatever your company’s IT department requires. These come in the form of education packs, [...]

The two most powerful words you can say – “Thank You”  We invited our customers for lunch at the Imperial Peking Harbourside in Sydney and the Willows Restaurant in Melbourne. What great venues to catch up with our customers and enjoy a drink and sensational food and talk about the year in review and have [...]

Success Story We recently had an email from a very happy customer who had bought a new IBM System i model 525 from us to replace his AS/400 model 720. Here’s an edit of what came through: Good afternoon Norm and Warwick, Well you have sold me a dud!!!!!! Now that I’ve got your attention… [...]

As you know, many organisations have legacy software systems which have run their business successfully for years. They have a large investment in the software, and it would be difficult and costly to replace. But at Computer Merchants, we work with a great team at a company called ComActivity. These guys can upgrade your legacy [...]

IBM – System – AS/400 IBM 9406 170#2290 RISC Processor CPW = 20/73 V5.X $4,500 IBM 9406 170#2291 RISC Processor CPW = 25/115 V5.X $4,800 IBM 9406 170#2292 RISC Processor CPW = 30/220 V5.X $4,500 IBM 9406 170#2385 RISC Processor CPW = 50/460 V5.X $6,700 IBM 9406 170#2386 RISC Processor CPW = 70/460 V5.X $7,100 [...]

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 – RS/6000 IBM 7025 F50 System F50 0 x 0 x 0 $2,600 IBM 7025 [...]

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 – S/390 IBM 9672 X17 System S/390 Parallel Transaction Server – 174MIPS $65,000 IBM 9672 [...]

Due to be released in November 2007, with promises to deliver new and exciting advances to the current AIX portfolio is AIX 6. The planned AIX release will allow full binary compatibility with previous releases of AIX 5L, and will work on any hardware supported by AIX6 including POWER4, PPC970, POWER5 and POWER6. AIX6 is [...]

Here’s a handy overview of the latest range of IBM System x Intel servers, including the types of applications each model is ideally suited to. IBM System x3250 The IBM System x3250 is an efficient, dense, 1U, single-socket, rack-optimised server for Web and infrastructure solutions. Ideal applications: Web serving, network infrastructure and load balancing. Processor: [...]

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 Specials” for more information on the following items. HP Servers HP rp7400 with 2 x 440MHz CPU, 4GB Memory, 2 x 73GB Drives $4,320 HP rp5470 with [...]

Our sales team are committed to providing you with up-to date information and advice to assist you and your business in finding the best solution available. In doing so we are constantly participating in IBM courses, conferences and new product release information sessions. With the new financial year here there are a couple of events [...]