• Sun Servers
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• Sun Midrange Servers
• Sun Entry-Level Servers
• Sun Fire Servers
• Legacy Sun Enterprise Servers

NASI carries a full line of Sun servers, including SPARC64, CoolThreads, x64 and Sun Fire servers, in addition to storage and workstation options

Maximize your choices with used, unused, and refurbished Sun hardware with lower prices and faster fulfillment times from North American Systems

Used Sun equipment means lower prices
Used Sun equipment means more flexibility
Used Sun equipment means faster fulfillment and turnaround
Used Sun equipment means less uncertainty
Where does your used Sun equipment come from?

Contrary to the universe of “authorized” Sun partners, who are bound to sell mainly new equipment at pre-determined, contractual discounts that Sun grants, North American Systems is one of the leading Open Market Sun Resellers in the country. Below are the many advantages you gain from doing business with a respected Sun Open Market Reseller committed to providing customers with the widest array of options in the marketplace.

Used Sun Hardware = Lower Prices

We are flexible enough to offer Sun servers and equipment in used, refurbished, or new-in-box condition to our customers. This approach allows our Sun customers to better align their Sun performance requirements with their budget constraints. Instead of being forced to buy the “latest-and-greatest” equipment, you can buy equipment directly aligned with your needs, whether it be used or unused, at a price better than what Sun’s “authorized channel” can provide.

We have a global network of hardware providers we work with to get the best equipment at the lowest prices. Our brokers have years of experience in the marketplace, and our size provides us with market power to receive the lowest discounts in the industry, and pass these savings onto you.

Used Sun Hardware = More Flexibility

People charged with keeping vital business systems up-and-running have a hard task of staying within budget while remaining flexible and agile enough to respond to changing business demands. Then why don’t your Sun “partners” sell you what you actually need? North American Systems can provide you with the hardware you need, not what we need to sell to make quotas. We are accountable only to our customers, not our shareholders or distributors, and act accordingly, selling you the most appropriate technology for your business, not the most profitable.

Choose what Sun equipment you buy

Ever tried to upgrade an existing Sun server, or renew maintenance, only to find the hardware was EOL (end-of-life), or worse, EOSL (end-of-support-life)? Some vendors, like Sun, manufacture arbitrary product lifecycles as short as 3-4 years! These product lifecycles are designed to take perfectly working hardware out of datacenters before their useful life is up, to goose their bottom line.

We know that well-built IT products last for much longer than that, and with the proper support and upgrades, Sun servers can last well beyond their EOL. With used Sun hardware from North American Systems, you can continue to get upgrades and spares parts, and even maintenance from third-parties who aren’t concerned with manufacturer-dictated end-of-support lifecycles.

Choose where you buy your Sun equipment

Sun’s recent focus on selling “solutions” is based on their interest in keeping their profit margins high. New hardware sales are based on a registration system that reduces price competition because they provide discount preferences to incumbent partners. This reduces the motivation for partners to provide competitive pricing.

This situation also makes it very difficult to switch partners. If you are dissatisfied with a partner, internal Sun politics can ensure that your existing partner continues to get the best discounts, regardless of who you want to work with.

Worried about Sun’s warnings about “gray market product” and their “burn-in” times of up to 90 days, a mainly punitive measure to punish Sun customers for buying outside the channel? With North American Systems you don’t have to worry about these issues, since we ship only genuine Sun product, and guarantee it until it falls under the maintenance contract of your choice, be it Sun or another maintenance provider.

Check out our third-party maintenance for even more options to free your IT department from manufacturer’s maintenance, which is oftentimes outsourced anyways, sometimes to the same third-parties we offer maintenance from. Our options ensure that you don’t face skyrocketing maintenance costs to keep aging equipment under contract, and provide you with more customizability with setting SLAs down to the system level. In addition, third-party maintenance from us ensures you get the maximum amount of flexibility when it comes to procuring refurbished or unused upgrades and hardware on the open market.

Used Sun Hardware = Faster Fulfillment and Turnaround

Recent operations innovations like “just-in-time” manufacturing combined with the monolithic bureaucracy and order process mean that “authorized” Sun partners can get you the equipment you ordered about 6 weeks after you place the order (maybe). In today’s business environment, many of our customers need the hardware they order, yesterday, and with our large warehouse and Sun inventory, and overnight shipping options, we can get close.

Free from the restraints placed on traditional Sun, we can combine our existing inventory, along with inventory in the marketplace, to provide you with the hardware you need now, at the right price.

Used Sun Hardware = Less Uncertainty

With Sun recently being acquired by Cisco, who knows what the future holds. What North American Systems can provide you is a way for you to continue to keep your Sun IT infrastructure running at the performance your business needs, and respond quickly to changing requirements without breaking the bank.

North American Systems has been in business since 1993, and possesses a Dun & Bradstreet number, numerous credit references, as well as a large portfolio of satisfied customers.

All product that enters our 8,000 square foot technical area has due diligence performed, including cross-checking serial numbers when possible, to ensure authenticity. Before we ship products from our warehouse, it is tested and staged to ensure against DOA hardware. We stand behind our products, and offer standard warranties on all of our equipment.

Where does your used Sun equipment come from?

Our equipment comes from Sun and reaches us via indirect channels. Many manufacturers engage in “dumping” product to meet periodic financial targets, and these products oftentimes find their way onto the open market. In addition, the economic forces and virtualization technologies have caused many businesses to shrink their data center footprint, and if they can’t get a fair price from the OEM, they sell it on the open market, sometimes to us. Some products come off of lease and find their way into the open market as well.

Regardless, our global network of companies and contacts, combined with our experienced broker personnel, enable us to find out about, and take advantage of deals when we find them. We have an expansive warehouse for storing equipment, and sometimes we strip systems for parts and upgrades for customers, and sometimes we assemble them into fully-configured systems.