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The second Power 720 configuration is the same except for its storage options. This configuration has two 300 GB SAS drives for local operating system storage and then adds a Fibre Channel adapter (feature 5729) to attach out to a storage area network. This configuration lists for AU$60,311 and has the same AU$28,636 price tag. That works out to a 52.5 percent discount.
In New Zealand, the first Power 720 setup under this deal costs NZ$69,703, while the second one costs NZ$67,933; both are being sold at a discounted price of NZ$32,500. The New Zealand dollar is a bit weaker than the U.S. one right now, and that discounted price converts to $26,107 at Friday's exchange rates.
If you are looking for a holiday in a cold, wintery place right now--which probably sounds good to a lot of people in the heat-weary United States--you might be thinking that taking a holiday and bringing one of these puppies with battery such as Lenovo 92P1106 Ac Adapter , Lenovo 3000 C100 Ac Adapter , Lenovo FRU 92P1108 Ac Adapter , Lenovo 40Y7668 Ac Adapter , Lenovo 92P1160 Ac Adapter , Lenovo 3000 Ac Adapter , Lenovo ThinkPad R60 Ac Adapter , Lenovo ThinkPad T60 Ac Adapter , Lenovo 3000 V100 Ac Adapter , Lenovo 40Y7660 Ac Adapter , Lenovo 92P1157 Ac Adapter , Lenovo 92P1106 Ac Adapter back in your suitcase is a good idea. A Power 720 Express configuration with all four 3 GHz cores activated (with no operating system licenses), 8 GB of memory, and two 139 GB disks costs $6,409, and if you put IBM i on all four cores and toss on three years of software maintenance, then the price is $29,049. That's not an apples-to-apples comparison because the US price doesn't include the right disks or PowerVM Standard Edition on the cores. Let's get the configurations into parity. PowerVM Standard Edition costs $280 per core, so add on another $1,120. The RAID card is $1,800, and eight of those 15K RPM disks adds another $7,600. Take out the two 139 GB disks, and the total cost of the same configuration in the United States is $37,453. At current prices and exchange rates, therefore, the deal in Australia is 20.5 percent cheaper.
OK, so maybe you can get one in your suitcase after all. (Getting the machine certified for U.S. maintenance might not be trivial, so be careful.) Or, if you have operations in Australia and New Zealand and can legitimately move iron around your company's global operations, you might want to look into it.
For AIX shops, IBM has a beefier Power 750 system and equally steep discounts. The deal, which is in announcement letter ENUSA312-099 in Australia and in announcement letter ENUSNZ312-099 in New Zealand, runs until December 16 as well. It is available for a Power 750 box with two processor cards, each equipped with a six-core Power7 chip running at 3.7 GHz. The machine is set up with 96 GB of main memory, six 146 GB disks, and all of the cores in the box activated and configured with AIX 7.1 and PowerVM on all the cores. Software Maintenance for three years is also bundled in.
In Australia, this setup lists for AU$250,457 and has a discount price of AU$99,999. (Neither of those prices include sales taxes.) That's a stunning 60.1 percent discount. In New Zealand, the configuration costs NZ$289,030, and has a discount price of NZ$121,339, or 58 percent off list. It is a pity that there is not an IBM i 7.1 version of this deal.
It is also strange that there are not similar deals on the books for the United States, Canada, and Europe, but if the Power7+ announcements are slated for later this year rather than earlier, you can expect some wheeling and dealing to start soon.