Hardware Acquisition, Lead - Rich Lang

March 30, 2006

• The system admin's met with a new SAN technology provider EQUALLOGIC
  • very progressive hardware strategy
  • built upon iSCSI
  • provides scalable architecture to grow as needed

• The upgrade quote for the existing HP MA8000 SAN is in.
  • HP will be out to meet Tuesday at 10:00 to discuss the upgrade, SAN backups, and future business

• Visit to EMC to get feedback and checkout DELL's blade servers

• Quotes are in from HP for the SoftGrid servers
  • second DRAFT requested
  • may need to change the Server RAM requirements from 16GB down to 12GB

• Dell is the process of scheduling an appointment this next week

• 'Highly available' server equipment is being spec'd for the OCS environment
  • Preliminary evaluation of an ESX virtual server environment will take place next week