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    • RE: Simplivity - anyone use them?

      @scottalanmiller I cannot help but feel a bit like I'm being attacked. {salesdick?}

      I will assure you the conversation will be moved to our leadership around pricing disclosure to end users. Was here being friendly, I think I'm better off to leave this to the bloggers/marketing folks, but I feel responsible as I should have done the event. Sorry all. Didn't mean to stir up the hornets.

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    • RE: Simplivity - anyone use them?

      @scottalanmiller Understood. FWIW, my sales rep and I have sold to over 60 SMBs and I can tell you there are times when they negotiate better pricing than the enterprise. I have saved a few spice heads some large amounts that they are happy to discuss. Look at Shane Ladd on spice works. He calls me out by name. We don't want to lose partnerships due to cost so we have been very aggressive in assuring that we work with you guys to get to a solution that works. we work hard to help people, not just get something on the floor. It is unfortunate that because of many sales reps shady practices we have to be so guarded, but I get it.

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    • RE: Simplivity - anyone use them?

      @scottalanmiller In that case thank you. We do not want to snub SMB, we value your business. I think you'll find that our data protection is great in that space where dr is a major undertaking and often too expensive, and sys admins have to constantly compete with IaaS offerings. Hopefully, you have the time to give us a look at some point, and I will relay th edata to management, However there may be drivers around publishing a pricebook in a competitive space that we are both unaware of.

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    • RE: Simplivity - anyone use them?

      @Minion-Queen Thanks and I agree with every point. Not eating lunch today as I am short on time too 🙂 I take things a bit personally I'll admit, so your comments are taken to heart. I'm not a person who frequents the forums, so I'm not the greatest at knowing the proper format.

      Honestly speaking, I felt I could jump in and turn it around, without really thinking it through. My ego got in the way of my hearing for a bit, as indeed I am just another person. Thanks all.

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    • RE: Simplivity - anyone use them?

      @cakeis_not_alie Thank you for the support! As I mentioned several of our customers and employees are Very passionate about our tech.

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    • RE: Simplivity - anyone use them?

      @cakeis_not_alie Didn't know who you were 🙂

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    • RE: Simplivity - anyone use them?

      @scottalanmiller In our patch in IL/WI we will be happy to work with anyone. We have enterprise customers as well as smaller 2 node only shops and I feel they are both worthwhile. If my leadership says someone isn't big enough to deal with, I would listen, but I ran these in production for 2+ years as an end user (yes enterprise) and had them in branch offices (similar to a SMB IMHO) and they performed very well. Cost less than traditional for me.

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    • RE: Simplivity - anyone use them?

      @scottalanmiller I respect that, I did state the street prices and the basic specs, you guys can decide where the line is drawn. I would bet that some SMB are a fit and others are not. Our tech is what's different, so when shopping, just know that we are more than servers and storage in a box.

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