Wednesday, July 28, 2010

How to Choose Best Server

How to Choose Best Server
Servers are in demand from university to large enterprise business. However, knowing that you need a server and actually getting the right one are two different things. This how-to guide will help you understand what a server is, how to decide if you need one, and how to go about finding the right server to meet your needs.

(1) What problem are you trying to solve?
(2) What kind of software do you need to run on system?
(3) How many processors do you need and at what speed?
(4) How much memory (RAM) do you need?
When choosing a hardware configuration, remember that each application has a different requirement. For instance, if you plan to use your server as a Web Server with a lot of static content (such as a Web portal) or as a file or networked server, then the amount of RAM doesn't really matter.
(5) How much hard disk space does data require, now and in the future?
Your Hard disk capacity based on future requirement and on data you have to store. Another important parameter for I/O intensive networked servers is hard disk performance. This is also critical for database servers. But to get optimum performance, you require a very high capacity hard disk with maximum rpm and throughput, and that too in large numbers. You can actually get better performance out of five 10,000 rpm SATA HDDs than what you can get from two 15,000 rpm SAS drives. But it depends on how much you can spend and what's more important for you. If redundancy is not important and you have three HDDs, then you can connect all of them in RAID 0 (Stripping mode) and get some really extraordinary performance.
Now, if redundancy is extremely important, which is the case with most users, you can go for RAID 5 with more hard disks (let's say 6 instead of 3) so that you can reduce the performance degradation while writing parity information, and get performance which is equivalent to having two disks in RAID 0.

(6) What kind of hard disk controller (SATA, SCSI, or SAS) do you need?
(7) Do you want a rackmount server or a tower?
(8) How many network interface cards do you need?
(9) Do you plan to attach additional backup and storage drives (tape or optical, for example) to your system?
(10) What level of RAID (redundant array of independent disks) do you want to support?
These questions help you to choose best servers.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Used Servers for Small Business to Large Organization

As IT infrastructure budget shrinks. But you can’t stay away from the IT equipments and hardware that is necessary. Used servers are a great way to save on your IT budget and with technology expanding exponentially used servers are almost as good as brand new ones. Not to mention that, due to the cost of technology coming down, finding a cheap used server is easier than ever. A server is a computer that delivers information and software to other computers that are linked by a network. Servers offer essential benefits to businesses of all sizes by providing additional storage and processing power, centralized data migration, and effective backup features.
Let consider advantage of used Servers from small business to large organization.
 The biggest advantages of used servers is that businesses can embed communications capabilities into existing line-of-business applications and use communications and workflow capabilities to automate business processes at reduced price.

 Buying used IT equipment helps organizations to reduce their initials capital outlay.


 You can buy used IT equipments of brands like HP, IBM, DELL, SUN….etc with warranty from our company.

 Second hand systems today can be almost as good as new, they can easily save a small business a considerable amount of money.

 For many organizations, purchasing second hand equipment to meet their demands may look like a lot of work but if they are using IT asset disposal services that actually specialize in second-hand servers and second-hand information storage, it will make their work much simpler.

Friday, March 26, 2010

HOT DEALS

HP ProLiant DL380 G4 DUAL CORE
HDD 36.4GB ULTRA320 SCSI,
MEOMERY 2GB, DDR2,400,CL3,ECC, REG
PROCESSOR 3000DP/2M/800
Condition:Used

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Maxicom Premium Asset Recovery Services

Maxicom will handle the logistics of properly disposing your used equipment in an environmentally sensitive way. We will pick up your systems at your designated location, cleanse the systems of all data and audit your equipment to determine the value. We then help you resell it to a third party. Equipment that has no residual value is recycled.
Maxicom Network wants to buy your used or pre-owned IT equipment. We have the staff with the expertise to accurately give a competitive price for your IT hardware. The condition of your item, as in its operability and physical appearance will determine the item's worth, as well as the demand and age of the product.
We buy enterprise level IT equipment. We buy excess new or used IT Hardware, Servers, Workstations, Parts, Peripherals, Storage Arrays, Networking and more.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Your IT Hardware Specialist

Welcome to Maxicom Network India, your first call for new and used servers, for networking hardware, for storage and IT solutions in India. We are value-added reseller and supplier of used Networking equipments, used HP servers, used IBM p series , used SUN server and IT products specializing in end-of-life IT hardware like Desktop, Laptop, Servers and Networking equipments that are hard to find or obsolete.

We are Seller/Exporter and Distributor and Supplier of servers, storage, networking and solutions including new, used and second hand computer hardware and printer and plotters. So we have sales professionals with experience in each line and they take the time to guarantee that our products are reliable.
We are located in the India, so we have among the fastest delivery times in the industry. Same-day and overnight delivery are routine.