No-one local that I know of, no. I can’t even think of anyone who’d be able to do that for you… the leasing costs would almost be as much as the purchase cost! Do you need SAS, FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, or what? That makes a difference. The problem is that even dedicated storage vendors don’t have gear like that sitting ready to go even for resale, never mind leasing… the NPV (or depreciation, if you prefer) curve on storage is far too extreme to take that chance. How short is short-term? -- -Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net Cell: +1 204 291-7950 Fax: +1 204 489-6515 From: Grigory Shamov Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 13:29 To: MUUG Roundtable Hi All, Do you know if it is possible to short-term lease storage on-site, in Winnipeg? Like having someone to bring in an appliance (about 100TB capacity) with a decent connection (10GigE at least) to attach directly to a system, for a short time. -- Grigory Shamov Westgrid/ComputeCanada Site Lead University of Manitoba E2-588 EITC Building, (204) 474-9625 _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable