From Channel Insider..

I just completed another hardware spec. Like every hardware spec I’ve done in the past six years, I spent a while tweaking CPU, memory and disk. I could spend an entire day playing with the various RAID configurations for performance versus cost. If I add lots of spindles to a system, I increase performance, but also drive up cost dramatically.

There’s nothing glamorous about hardware. Despite the fact that we want it to be glamorous (and the hardware vendors even more so!), it’s just not. Customers aren’t incredibly impressed by all the flashing lights. The moment that server goes into place, the investment becomes one entirely of business need.

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