Need qualified packers/shippers for racked equipment

Thu Sep 23 21:31:19 UTC 2004

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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