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If you are looking to buy a Power 720 or 750 server based on the current Power7 processors and your company happens to be located in either Australia or New Zealand, then IBM has a deal that you are probably going to want to take a look at and maybe not even refuse. Maybe IBM will start wheeling and dealing up here in the Northern Hemisphere soon, too, ahead of the Power7+ launch.
As you all know, the vast majority of customers who run IBM i on modern Power Systems machines find that a single-socket Power 720 is sufficient for the online transaction processing workloads that they run. While Big Blue still gets a lot more money from peddling larger boxes, the small machines make up the bulk of the volume. So it is no surprise that IBM is peddling this particular machine at a steep discount to IBM with battery like IBM 02K5669 Ac Adapter , IBM Thinkpad 290 Ac Adapter , IBM 92P1025 Ac Adapter , IBM ThinkPad R51 Ac Adapter , IBM 40Y7668 Ac Adapter , IBM ThinkPad T60 Ac Adapter , IBM ThinkPad Z60 Ac Adapter , IBM ThinkPad T40 Ac Adapter , IBM 92P1021 Ac Adapter , IBM ThinkPad 600 Ac Adapter , IBM ThinkPad T42 Ac Adapter , IBM 08K8209 Ac Adapter i shops Down Under.
The Power 720 Optimised for Business (they don't use Zs down there except in slang or when they are sleeping apparently) deal is detailed in announcement letter ENUSA312-097A in Australia and in announcement letter ENUSNZ312-097A in New Zealand. Under these deals, customers who buy a Power 720 system (one of the new ones announced last October with PCI-Express 2.0 peripherals and doubled up main memory) and specific hardware and software configurations can get the boxes at a pretty hefty discount.
There are two slightly different Power 720 setups, which will be available at the discounted price until December 16, giving IBM plenty of time to ship the boxes and therefore to book the revenue before the end of the year. The first configuration actives all four of the 3 GHz cores on the single processor card and loads up IBM i 7.1 on all four cores and activates it for 30 end users. The machine gets 8 GB of memory (probably not enough for most workloads), eight 283 SAS drives, and the 175 MB RAID 5 mezzanine card that snaps into the on-motherboard SAS disk controller. In addition to the IBM i licenses, the configuration includes PowerVM Standard Edition and three years of maintenance. In Australia, this machine has a list price of AU$61,621 (that's Australian dollars), not including local taxes, and with the discount, IBM is dropping the price to AU$28,636. That's a 53.5 percent price cut. By the way, the U.S. and Australian dollars are nearly in synch, and if you convert that machine's price to US dollars at current exchange rates, it works out to $29,790.