{"id":11521,"date":"2011-08-22T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11521"},"modified":"2011-08-22T17:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T17:27:00","slug":"what-hardware-would-i-buy-in-20112012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11521","title":{"rendered":"What Hardware Would I Buy in 2011\/2012?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past I\u2019ve always said that I pick manufacturers based on:<\/p>\n

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  1. Support for System Center (Operations Manager management packs, Configuration Manager\/SCE plug-ins, PRO management packs, etc)<\/li>\n
  2. Price\/quality\/met requirements\/etc<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    HP and Dell always top the chart there, and I\u2019ve tended to prefer HP because:<\/p>\n

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    1. I know their stuff<\/li>\n
    2. The build quality and SupportPack support are excellent<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      IBM is always bottom of my hardware charts \"Smile\"<\/p>\n

      Ask me last week what servers and storage I\u2019d recommend and I\u2019d have said HP ProLiant rack\/blade servers and either P4000 or EVA storage.  Now that has changed.<\/p>\n

      The announcements of last week leave me thinking that HP is a headless chicken.  They are the number 1 PC maker and they\u2019re getting out of the market.  The morons on the board spent over $1 billion on Palm so they could spend billions more on a tablet that they pulled after 1.5 months of sales, and a phone that was \u201con sale\u201d (or in warehouses) in Europe for less than a week.  I\u2019d hate to invest in server and\/or storage system from HP to find that suddenly they decided to focus on the manufacturing on ice cream \u2013 I wouldn\u2019t put it past the former CEO of SAP to do this:<\/p>\n