Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:57:58 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henrik_Lidstr=F6m?= <freebsd@henriklidstrom.se> To: Devin Heckman <terrio@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server vendors Message-ID: <45CA83A6.2050004@henriklidstrom.se> In-Reply-To: <20070207232641.GD6168@rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <20070207232641.GD6168@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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Devin Heckman skrev: > Hi, > > The organization I work for is looking to purchase hardware that will > serve as a backup server running FreeBSD. We have purchased from IBM for > many years, but we are looking at branching out and purchasing from a > vendor which explicitly supports FreeBSD. > > I have been looking at > > http://www.freebsdsystems.com/ > > recently, and am wondering if anyone on this list has any experience > with this vendor. If not, from whom do you recommend buying hardware for > a FreeBSD server? We look for good service contracts (on-site hardware > support available, for example) as well as reliable hardware. > > (Though this may not be necessary, we're looking at buying something > that can handle the backup of greater than 20 and less than 40 servers, > but remain under a budget of $5k. We think we'll need ~1TB of storage > space. Needless to say, we don't need state-of-the-art hardware to > accomplish this.) > > Thanks a bunch! > > > Also look at iXsystems. ( http://www.ixsystems.com ) Matt Olander (CTO) seems like a really great guy, and is a long term advocate of BSD. BSDTalk interview with Matt : http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2006/10/bsdtalk077-matt-olander-from-ixsystems.html I have also seen him on TechTV. /Henrik
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