IBM cuts discounts for Power Systems i-DS8000 sales | | 2009-01-19 | | | IBM has reduced the discounts on its high-end DS8000 disk arrays for customers attaching those arrays to Power Systems servers sporting the i5/OS V5R4 or i 6.1 operating systems.Instigated in September, IBM was offering up to 70 percent discounts on four configurations of Power System i and DS8000 disk arrays.A DS8100 with 9.3 TB of capacity and a license to storage software that spans up to 10 TB for attachment to a Power 570 box was being offered at a discount of 67 percent for hardware and 45 percent for software, now cut to 62 percent and 40 percent respectively.A DS8100 with 21 TB of disk capacity and a software license that spans up to 25 TB for attachment to a Power 570 box was discounted at 70 percent off list on the hardware and 45 percent on the software. This has been reduced to 65 and 40 percent.The same reduction applies to configurations of the DS8300 array with the Power 595 box. | |
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