Category: System p

IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 2way 1.5GHz $3,700 IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 2way 1.65MHz $4,400 IBM 9131 52A System p5+ 52A – 4way 1.65GHz $6,100 IBM 9133 55A System p5+ 55A – 4way 2.1GHz $20,000 IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Processors IBM 7038 5122 [...]

IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 2way 1.5GHz $3,700 IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 2way 1.65MHz $4,400 IBM 9131 52A System p5+ 52A – 4way 1.65GHz $6,100 IBM 9133 55A System p5+ 55A – 4way 2.1GHz $20,000 IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Processors IBM 7038 5122 [...]

IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 2way 1.5Ghz $3,700 IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 2way 1.65MHz $4,400 IBM 9131 52A System p5+ 52A – 4way 1.65Ghz $7,500 IBM 9133 55A System p5+ 55A – 4way 2.1Ghz $20,000 IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Processors IBM 7038 5122 [...]

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 Price Guide”, or fill in the form below. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5Ghz $5,500 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 Price Guide”, or fill in the form below. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $5,500 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 Price Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $5,500 IBM 9111 [...]

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 Price Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM    9111    520    System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz    $5,500 IBM    9111   [...]

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 Price Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $5,500 IBM 9111 [...]

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 Price Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $5,700 IBM 9111 [...]

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 Price Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $5,700 IBM 9111 [...]

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 Price Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM    9111    520    System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz    $5,700 IBM    9111   [...]

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 Price Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $5,700 IBM 9111 [...]

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 Price Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $5,900 IBM 9111 [...]

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 Price Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM    9111    520    System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz    $5,900 IBM    9111   [...]

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 Price Guide” for more information on the following items. IBM System p, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $5,900 IBM 9111 [...]

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, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $5,900 IBM 9111 [...]

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, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $5,900 IBM 9111 [...]

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, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5Ghz $6,200 IBM 9111 [...]

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, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $6,200 IBM 9111 [...]

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, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $6,200 IBM 9111 [...]

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, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $6,500 IBM 9111 [...]

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, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5GHz $7,500 IBM 9111 [...]

“By 2011, some form of CDP will be deployed in 80% of the Fortune 2000.” – Gartner EchoStreamTM for AIX® is a true continuous data protection solution that delivers nearly instantaneous recovery of your applications and data at the push of a button. Unlike traditional backup solutions, it enables you to recover data from any point in [...]

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, pSeries, RS/6000 Systems IBM 9111 520 System p5 520 – 1way 1.5Ghz $7,500 IBM 9111 [...]

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 – 1-way 1.5 $9,000 IBM 9111 520 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

Do you run multi core CPUs in your server and run Oracle Databases? If you do here’s some good news for you. Oracle has changed the way they calculate their pricing for software. The old licensing model was based on CPUs or Cores. The new method is based on Sockets which can have multi core [...]

Can you believe the end of the financial year is nearly upon us? We have been very busy at Computer Merchants. Life here has been a buzz of activity with the end of the financial year approaching. Here’s a snapshot of what has been going on: IBM have announced a new range of System i [...]

You may have heard that the Computer Merchants Team have recently welcomed the addition of Prue and Sonya to their System p Team. In fact you may have had the pleasure of speaking to them in person. The two little “rays of sunshine” have been welcomed on board to help you with your needs as the [...]

Well what a start to the year! It has been an exciting time for the Production Department here at Computer Merchants. Here’s a little of what has been going on. It started with two i520s in racks for one of our customers. These machines required 3 LPARs each and that was exciting. Then I was off [...]

IBM Director is both a remote systems management tool and monitoring solution which was made for both servers and PCs on Intel platforms. The idea was to be able to provide multi-systems management where administrators could easily keep an eye on their hardware and at the same time monitor anything critical. The basic layout was [...]

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 FC Disk IBM 1815-82A DS4800 4GB Cache $30,800 IBM 1740-710 EXP710 $7,580 IBM 1740-1RU EXP700 $4,520 IBM 5206 [...]

Dear Margaret,I’m so scared! My boss has just told me that I’ve got to go. He’s telling me that I am getting too old and complains that I’m too difficult to look after. She’s already found a replacement for me – I saw her yesterday all dressed in black (talk about high maintenance).After working here [...]

To help put some clarity around the current range of IBM LTO3 tape drive we have put together a summary. LTO3 is the third release of LTO technology offering 400GB native capacity per cartridge, 800GB compressed. The latest release of IBM drives as shown below offer multiple cartridge capacity on all models. All models support [...]

In August we sent out a “Specials email” to a few of you. As much as anything, the purpose of the email was to let you know that there are other products you can purchase from us aside from the midrange, mainframe and storage products we focus on. The products featured in the email included [...]

Just like you, we rely on our IT systems to support our business objectives Without these systems we may as well turn off the lights and go home, as it is almost impossible for us to operate without them. In the mid 1990′s we decided that we needed to implement a Disaster Recovery plan. We [...]

It’s a classic scenario – you’ve just upgraded your production system and one of your team suggests that you keep the old server for development. Of course, it’s a solid, reliable performer and hasn’t caused you much pain for the 5 or so years that it’s been running your production applications. It makes sense… until you [...]

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 pSeries Memory IBM #4452 IBM 2048MB (4x 512MB) DIMMs 208 Pin 8NS DDR SDRAM – $800 Suitable for [...]

IBM enjoys rebranding products to keep them relevant and current to the user population. For anyone who is yet to ‘catch up’ the following is a quick summary of some products that share ‘dual personalities’. System 390 = zSeries = System z (Mainframe) AS/400 = iSeries = System i (Midrange OS/400) RS/6000 = pSeries = [...]

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 Servers IBM 7025-F80 2w450MHz, 2GB, 6x18GB disk, RAID adapter, 12/24GB tape $7,800 IBM 7038-6M2 pSeries 650 4w1.45GHz, 8GB, [...]

With increasingly shared hardware between iSeries and pSeries machines many of you are asking questions about how to compare performance. IBM System p Traditionally, IBM Unix used the ROLTP to compare performance. Due to huge performance increases in recent years, the ROLTP has been replaced with rPerf’s, where 1 rPerf = ~ 25 ROLTP Remember though, [...]

IBM has always set the standard for high quality software Support Line Services Just a reminder, we can now tailor your support line services to suit your critical business needs. With a choice of business hours or 24 x 7 coverage, Support Line can be accessed via local telephone or electronic services. IBM has an [...]

Businesses around Australia and New Zealand depreciate their IT hardware at all sorts of different rates. Some can be over a few years and others up to 8 years plus. Very often, within a particular depreciation schedule there comes the need for extra disk, memory or processors. Sometimes it doesn’t make sense to purchase brand new [...]

A Performance Chart is a tool for comparing different servers It allows you to know the improvement you can expect from an upgrade of your machine. Each machine is rated on performance criteria such as: floating point calculations, web server performance, client/server interaction, or raw computing power. Results are then displayed in an easy to interpret [...]

As you know, we like to keep in regular contact with you throughout the year. Often our calls are to see if you may be interested in a certain product that we know would be of use in your particular situation. We try to keep an updated record of your equipment base so that we can make [...]

Customers often remark to us that their RS/6000 just sits in the corner and chugs away giving them little or no trouble One such customer recently reported that in the 12 years that they have been running a particular RS/6000 they have made 5 service calls to IBM – 4 of them being for their [...]

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 pSeries Specials 7026 H80 4 x 450MHz Processor, 2GB Memory, 2 x 18GB Disk – $6,000 5208 1.45GHz [...]