CCNY has been reselling used Sun Microsystems for over 20 years. Over the past 10 years a great deal of effort has been made to build it’s business outside of the Sun offerings. We have built a strong business reselling, HP, Dell, IBM, and Cisco. We have also built CCNY’s “Best of Breed” business. We have built relationships with technology leaders like Fortinet and Aruba Networks. While we have had great success outside of reselling Sun Microsystems equipment, a large portion of our customer base has remained loyal to using Sun Microsystems hardware.
CCNY often turns to our customers to understand where our next move to stay successful in a competitive market should be. What we found is that many of our customers are making a move to Fujitsu. Fujitsu has been making Sun Microsystems hardware for years. Many customers that were not happy working with Sun Microsystems, now Oracle, found that Fujitsu was easier to work with and sold the same quality hardware that they have been happy with for years.
CCNY has is directing a lot of energy and resources in to building this business. We have put in place a full time product manager to manage the business. We are working with several different partners to be able to offer extremely competitive pricing on the hardware and we have established relationships to help us offer 24x7x4 hour response maintenance and support for the Fujitsu hardware.
We are very excited to further expand our product line with Fujitsu enterprise servers. We are confident that we will build this business as we did all the others. I want to thank our customers for helping to build our business to expand and adapt into the future.
Doing a simple check on a Sun Fire V445 prior to initial testing. This Sun V445 was configured with 2×1.6GHz processors, 8GB RAM, and 8x 73GB 10k drives.
Memory is much like anything else you buy these days, quality matters. There is different quality memory, memory is made with certain clock speeds, memory can be 50ns, 60ns and so on. Memory is used in everything from microwaves to your automobile. While these devices do not require high quality memory, simply because of the way they work – they tend to do one task at a time and then move on to the next, modern day computers handle many different tasks at any given time. Sun/Oracle, HP , Dell, IBM and most other big-name vendors sell servers with multiple cores, some having up to 128 threads, multiple network ports, and have built in RAID controllers – all while running many applications on operating systems ranging from Solaris to Linux to Windows. These computers do require very high quality memory.
In many situations, the memory for these high-end computers is so specialized that it is hard to find memory from different vendors that work, even though they have common factors such as speed and size. Even memory sold by the same vendor, with the same part number will not work 100% of the time. We at CCNY not only make sure the memory in all of our systems is from the same vendor, we make sure each detail of the memory matches down to the date code. This combined with the many other steps we take with each shipment helps us to increase the quality on every server – from Sun/Oracle to HP to Dell or IBM.
