Since I shy away from vending machines, trans fats, Las Vegas and scary ingredients, I will stick to my favorite topic: Storage!
It took perhaps a day for our faithful customers to give us clear feedback on our Dedicated Backup Server (DBS) line when it shipped last September, and we listened. They wanted more space, a lower cost per GB and more power. It took us a little more than a day to answer those requests, but we hope our new addition is worth the wait.
We’re proudly announcing the newest addition to the DBS family, affectionately called “The Beast” by those of us who drool over 6 terabytes (TB) of usable and abusable space, dual quad core XEON power, 8GB of RAM and 8 massive TB of monthly bandwidth!
We actually have been building this configuration for a few months on a custom basis, and so it has been heavily tested and approved by our hard-core TB drinkers: They loved it, and you will too!
The regular monthly price is $1,099, and we are going to have a promotion at the launch to make sure these Beasts do not sit around for long. For a limited time, The Beast can be yours for $999/mo … that’s around 16 cents/GB per month, if my math is any good. This is by far the best value in the line, and comes with the same unlimited pool of client licenses, Continuous Data Protection and block level performance as the humble 500GB, 1TB and 1.5TB DBS configurations we’ve had available since the product’s launch.
We did hit one problem: the dang things do NOT fit in our vending machines, and the silly machines didn’t accept $100 bills.
Don’t worry, we’ve got a call in to our facilities group.
-Brett
March 19th, 2008 at 1:09 am
Thats great to hear, ups i meant read
Customers where for a long time outsourcing their backup solutions to lower costs per GB outside TP. This will get a change everyone to consolidate their safe data in one big monster. 16 cents per GB matches current market prices. At least for people that try to start a backup service this will let them sell it to 1$ at final price and still make a buck out of it.
The monster will also be great if you need to lower your costs on several distributed backup servers by consolidating it to one piece of hardware.
Lets us order it soon !!!