[74382] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Need qualified packers/shippers for racked equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Thu Sep 23 17:37:44 2004
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:31:19 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: "C. Bensend" <benny@bennyvision.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4610.134.244.169.17.1095973411.squirrel@134.244.169.17>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
With that kind of gear, and only 8 racks I really wonder how much the
colo provider was charging you to justify bringing the application
in-house.. eesh.
DJ
C. Bensend wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have received marching orders to pull our hardware out of a
> datacenter in Chicago and have it distributed within our company.
> We are migrating to the next generation of the application hosted
> there and bringing everything in-house. This decision is all about
> the money and has nothing to do with the colocation company.
>
> I have read through the similar thread started by Mr. Zito in
> August of 2003 (http://tinyurl.com/5g9ug), but my requirements are
> slightly different. They include:
>
> 1) Must be able to insure for more than $50,000 per shipment
> 2) No real rush - 5-7 days should be acceptable
> 3) Must be able to ship full racks _including_ packing/crating - we
> will have staff on-site to pull the site down, but we would
> rather have the shipper handle packaging
> 4) Should have solid experience shipping high-value data equipment
> 5) Multiple shipments to different destinations within a week's
> timeframe
> 6) Not all destinations will have a dock for offloading
> 7) There will be ~8 racks, plus two HP XP256 cabinets
>
> I am open to emails from salesfolk as long as they're reasonable.
> For right now, I just need contacts with shippers that are qualified
> and recommended by the community, so we can start working on quotes.
> I'm looking at the first (small) shipment leaving Chicago around
> the first week of November, with the remainder of the site shipping
> the first week of December.
>
> I will of course summarize back to the list, so feel free to email
> me off-list if you like.
>
> Thanks much!
>
> Benny
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