Re: [lopsa-discuss] hardware vendor reccomendations?

2009-08-02 Thread Troy Davis
It's been a while since I had to buy hardware (yay!), but for ~7 years, I was happy with the folks at Silicon Mechanics. Wouldn't hesitate to buy more systems from them. We didn't use the latest components, and they understood that most systems don't need SSDs and 16 cores (and that the real metr

Re: [lopsa-discuss] SAGE Sysadmin Salary Survey and salaries over $200, 000

2010-05-16 Thread Troy Davis
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin < atsaloli.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > >The few respondents who cited salaries greater than >US$200,000 are excluded from most of the analyses >throughout this document. > > Can anybody shed light on what it takes to get to