Cannot decide between 1U servers for growing company
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@ntoxicator said:
I'm anticipating 50k budget. Considering the millions of dollars we're grossing. They made comment of wanting something that will hold out until 2018 or so. To support ~300-400 employee's
Then just do what we all told you to do and buy Scale gear.
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We have a local data center down the road as well.. I've been wanting to negotiate shared rack space for power + BW as alternative backup area or for future hosting needs. That is separate topic for another day. Sure I'll get flamed for that one lol.
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@ntoxicator said:
We have a local data center down the road as well.. I've been wanting to negotiate shared rack space for power + BW as alternative backup area or for future hosting needs. That is separate topic for another day. Sure I'll get flamed for that one lol.
I'll flame it right here.. You don't negotiate for shared rack space. If they are truly a data center, then you rent collocation space. Negotiate your price point and bandwidth, sure. but it is a simple, clear concept.
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@JaredBusch said:
@ntoxicator said:
We have a local data center down the road as well.. I've been wanting to negotiate shared rack space for power + BW as alternative backup area or for future hosting needs. That is separate topic for another day. Sure I'll get flamed for that one lol.
I'll flame it right here.. You don't negotiate for shared rack space. If they are truly a data center, then you rent collocation space. Negotiate your price point and bandwidth, sure. but it is a simple, clear concept.
Right if they are an enterprise class datacenter and sell collocation space then that's that... hell if you have a decent ISP or two you could relocate all of your stuff there... especially since you are already doing terminal services.
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Yes - I'm aware of colo'ing servers.
Yes - i can negotiate or buy half rack or full rack for power and bw
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@ntoxicator I will have Kevin Holmes and Ross Wimer reach out to you
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@Aconboy - awesome. thank you!
cheers
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@coliver said:
@JaredBusch said:
@ntoxicator said:
We have a local data center down the road as well.. I've been wanting to negotiate shared rack space for power + BW as alternative backup area or for future hosting needs. That is separate topic for another day. Sure I'll get flamed for that one lol.
I'll flame it right here.. You don't negotiate for shared rack space. If they are truly a data center, then you rent collocation space. Negotiate your price point and bandwidth, sure. but it is a simple, clear concept.
Right if they are an enterprise class datacenter and sell collocation space then that's that... hell if you have a decent ISP or two you could relocate all of your stuff there... especially since you are already doing terminal services.
Yep. We can put some hardware in with our router at our ISP.
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@ntoxicator said:
I'm anticipating 50k budget. Considering the millions of dollars we're grossing. They made comment of wanting something that will hold out until 2018 or so. To support ~300-400 employee's
That's where Scale "scales" like you want. You can start with what you need today and grow to whatever you need down the road. All very fluid.
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How is this project going?
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It's gone quiet, apparently
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had a webinar with Scale. Need to provide back assessment data before can see their proposal with cost. Will see.
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Let us know if there is anything that we can do to help out.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@dafyre said:
The Scale systems are excellent. I know NTG has one. I've worked with their systems a couple of years ago, and the performance was night & day VS VMware and a similarly sized SAN. And their systems work really well.
Scale especially kicks butt for Windows performance because of their stack.
In the demo we had the @scale tech was able to install a Windows Server before my ADD kicked in. It was impressive, almost nothing is fast enough to avoid that.
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@ntoxicator - On Friday the President signed into law a bill that allows small businesses to deduct up to $500,000 of computer/software solution purchases on their 2015 tax returns for purchases made before the end of the year. Previously they would have only been able to deduct a total of $25,000 of these types of purchases in 2015 and would have had to spread the rest of the deduction over the useful life of each asset. This law now allows them to enjoy the entire tax benefit right away!
Said another way, if a tax-paying SMB customer purchases a Scale solution before 12/31, they will be able to deduct the entire expense from their 2015 income. This means they will realize significant cash savings for 2015 by buying now. A $50,000 purchase now only really costs $32,500 because of the cash saved on taxes.
Example
Scale purchase: $50,000
Estimated tax rate: 35%
Tax savings: $17,500
Net 2015 cash impact: $32,500 -
Wow - when they have done things like this in the past, it only counted if the solution was in place and functional (at least partially) in order to qualify.
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Pinging this one again to see if there has been any further progress? We'd all like to know how the project is going.
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Another year, another ping.
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Hi Scott -thanks for the follow-up. I've moved on from that company; hence my absence. Moved back to Upstate NY area.
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@ntoxicator said in Cannot decide between 1U servers for growing company:
Hi Scott -thanks for the follow-up. I've moved on from that company; hence my absence. Moved back to Upstate NY area.
Ah, congrats I hope. Where in Upstate are you now?
