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Rajendran, general manager, marketing, Acer India Pvt Ltd
Buying Consideration
- Evaluation on three to four parameters, features, performance, reliability
and price
Why Acer?
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Better performance and features
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Shows rampant redundancy and fault-tolerance features
Pallab Talukdar, director, enterprise products, enterprise business group,
Compaq India
Buying Considerations
- Reliability. At a generic level, ease of deployment and management, good
coupling of hardware and software, and cost of ownership (which is cost of
transactions) - Buying decision is a function of application, availability, scalability
and price-performance
Why Compaq?
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It firmly addresses the scalability and availability
curve -
Present from low-end to high-end, addressing NT/LINUX,
UNIX to OVMS and Himalaya, and addresses transactions, web and applications,
and access layers of operations. One of the very few companies working in
all spheres from low-end to high-end, and across platforms. -
Would be coming with a new architecture on 64 bit Itanium
for Alpha platform
AS Rajgopal, enterprise business manager, advanced systems group, Dell
Computer India Pvt Ltd
Buying Considerations
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High availability and serviceability for managing server
uptime
Why Dell?
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Through custom factory integration, mass customization
and online ordering, Dell provides a simple path to an IT solution. The Dell
model allows the development of a direct relationship between the customer
and the manufacturer, without the presence of a third-party to muddy
communication. -
Performance. According to the latest TPC-C rankings, Dell
holds four of the top five spots for price performance. In addition,
PowerEdge and PowerApp products hold top spots in SpecWeb and NotesBench
rankings -
Easy-to-use systems management through OpenManage systems
management software, which is engineered, tested and proven to help you
install, monitor, manage and integrate diverse systems from Dell, with
relative ease -
Concentrated on price leadership without reducing quality
Kamal Dutta, manager, country business, UNIX system, HP India
Buying Considerations
- Performance, investment protection, flexibility, scalability and
Reliability, Availability and Service (RAS) features - Performance of RISC server measured on processor performance, system I/O
bandwidth and latency, and through industry-application benchmarks like
OLTP-Specweb - Flexibility is measured as the ability of the server to handle different
types of workload, processors, OS and applications within a single server - Scalability and RAS address investment protection. Issues like upgrades
after a year, more applications and RAS features, should address hot-pluggable,
error-correcting features, data correction, how a solution is designed,
uptime, etc, which will control the total cost of ownership
Why HP?
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HP servers combine the power of system-class thinking
with open architectures essential to building an always-on Internet
infrastructure -
HP provides solutions across all operating environments,
including HP-UX, Windows and LINUX -
Co-founder of Itanium processor family architecture and
can offer a clear migration path for PA-RISC, Windows NT and LINUX, for
greater performance gains and interoperability in the future
Basu Hurkadi, country manager, system sales, IBM India Ltd
Buying Considerations
- Server must be application-driven
- Need for evaluation of the existing environment in terms of skills,
familiarity with UNIX, NT, LINUX - Growth in the long term
- infrastructure support requirement
Why IBM?
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It is the world’s largest server company, offering
complete data transaction, web application and appliance servers that
embrace open industry standards -
Provides the entire gamut of Intel and RISC servers
ranging from low-end to mid-frames to high-end segments -
IBM eServer has the clear advantage in providing multiple
options across platforms, to suit exact requirements for any business -
IBM has the best technology and benchmarking tests in the
area of servers
Avinash Fotetar, managing director, SGI
Buying Considerations
- Any user needs to look at the expandability of the system–I/O bandwidth
and linear scalability of performance - Flexibility and scalability. Ability to start small and grow
Why SGI?
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Offering Non Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) architecture
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Completely modular and focused on MIPS RISC with UNIX and
IS64 with LINUX
Anil Valluri, director, systems engineering, Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd
Buying Considerations
- The users need to select systems based on the applications. For example,
at the entry level i.e., for department level applications, it will be the
ease of deployment and cost along with the longevity of the architecture - In the mid-range category, for the branch level applications the concern
should be scalability, high performance, and availability - In the the enterprise class system, parameters like 24/7 capability, high
scalability, ruggedness and availability of applications - Further, while the entry level decision is dependent on the type of
operating system, at the enterprise level, applications should decide the
platform
Why Sun?
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It has not changed the architecture for years. Solaris
and Spark architecture -
Runs the highest number of applications
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A strong ecosystem of training, price-points, leading
edge in technology -
Three classes of systems. The work group–Netra Range,
work group 220R, 450, etc; Enterprise–Enterprise 3500/4500/5500/6500; and
Mainframes–E10000
Amar Babu, general manager, channels South Asia, Intel Corp
Buying Considerations
- Focus on optimizing costs on IT purchases
- Should not compromise on performance and features
- Opt for a server that meets one’s requirements and offers the best
price-performance within the available budget
Why Intel?
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Servers based on Intel server building blocks deliver
critical price-performance parameter in the best possible manner -
Concentrates on its server platforms incorporating
leading edge features, which enhance performance, scalability, reliability
and management through building blocks like server boards, offering dual and
multi-processor processing capability on both Pentium and Xeon platforms,
Server Chassis with redundancy features like hot swap power supplies and
hard drive capabilities, RAID controllers which provide the highest levels
of data protection and integrity, Gigabit Network adapters for the fastest
and most network connectivity, and advanced server management features like
Emergency Management Port (EMP) for remote management.