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<div><a href="http://www.quantaqct.com/Product/Servers/Rackmount-Servers/Cluster-Servers/STRATOS-S810-X52LR-p155c77c70c83c221">Quanta STRATOS S810-X52LR dual-node cluster-in-a-bo</a><a href="http://www.quantaqct.com/Product/Servers/Rackmount-Servers/Multi-node-Servers/STRATOS-S810-X52LR-2-Node-p288c77c70c83c185">x 2U server</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.quantaqct.com/Product/Servers/Rackmount-Servers/Multi-node-Servers/STRATOS-S810-X52L-4-Node-p20c77c70c83c185">Quanta STRATOS S810-X52L quad-node 2U server</a></div>
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<div>The cluster in a box units are great for any system that you require high availability for such as storage, networking, etc.</div>
<div>The quad node boxes are great for pretty much everything else.</div>
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<div>Transparency Disclosure: CloudCentral is the key Australian distributor / reseller for Quanta - see full list of resellers / distributors at http://www.quantaqct.com/product/manufacturer</div>
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<b>Sent</b>: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 10:47 AM<br />
<b>To</b>: "Skeeve Stevens" <skeeve+ausnog@theispguy.com><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The spec only says 1G nic, but I was told they will come with 10G Nic.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You could put a lot of routing / BGP peering etc on there.</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 25 February 2015 10:27 AM<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal">For example... in my offices in Asia, it was so damn hard to obtain/source equipment from distribution, taxes, bribes, delays, etc... we now longer sell Cisco/Juniper hardware.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This enables the customers to get what they need in hours, and not weeks/months. The last SRX240's I ordered in SE Asia had an ETA of 7 weeks... I mean, wtf? Most have grace periods of licensing at 14-90 days, so the customer can run up things in an emergency. They also get to control the grade of hardware redundancy they want - which is often good in some countries that do not even have SmartNet/JCare local services.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I find going to 10Gb in these environments more challenging, but getting easier... but at the multi-gigabit capacity throughput, it works perfectly. The only struggle initially was to get customers to accept a Juniper or Cisco with a HP Box on the front. But at the end of the day, it can do everything (and way way more) than they ever could by using hardware - and much sooner.</p>
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