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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Dell PowerEdge

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ADell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers, offering a range of options from cost-efficient one-socket servers to four-socket servers designed to support intensive and critical data center workloads.N/A

    IBM Power

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe IBM Power product line is a family of servers.N/A
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    Dell PowerEdgeIBM Power
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    Dell PowerEdgeIBM Power
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Dell PowerEdgeIBM Power
    Considered Both Products
    Dell Technologies
    Chose Dell PowerEdge
    Dell PowerEdge servers are very solid and come with all the required management software and features, i.e. iDRAC provides a web interface and a command line interface that enables the server admins manage the server by performing a wide variety of tasks. Also, it should be …
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    IBM
    Chose IBM Power
    It was not working properly remotely and also some features were missing that's why we switch to ibm power servers and find it really awesome. Dell PowerEdge R emitting lot of noise and heat up servers also. Starting it up was very complicated.
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    Chose IBM Power
    Due to pricing complexity, multiple pricing models, and the potential for unexpected costs if resources are not properly managed, my organization finds it difficult to anticipate and control AWS expenses. IBM Power Server with Cost Administration empowers my organization to …
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    Chose IBM Power
    IBM Power servers are the best server available in the market mainly due to the secure environment they provide, easy deployment with no downtime, AI support, powerful processor for extended workloads and high performance with fewer servers. These all features make it an easy …
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    Chose IBM Power
    We have no chance to have the same development in a Intel Server
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    Chose IBM Power
    The evaluation phase involves working with servers that have the scope and sizes of databases and applications while keeping the future load in mind. If we have to run such databases, we go through multiple pocs and load runs with software, and we have determined that IBM Power …
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    Chose IBM Power
    Virtualization of critical workloads (VCS) performs best on powerful hardware and helps to handle mission-critical workloads without the need for an outage. With the p9 and VCS technology pairings, heavy computational demands are handled efficiently. This platform supports a …
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    Chose IBM Power
    IBM POWER9 servers have demonstrated better performance per core and faster memory bandwidth over the x86 servers in our environment. Our benchmark testing of a handful of applications have shown POWER9 as the clear leader across all the tests.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Power
    We have been using Dell PowerEdge server for our Vmware environment. SAP HANA application was evaluated to run on ESX but all the studies and testing we did showed that ESX will not be able to provide performance, scalability and reliability we can get from POWER9. We also …
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    Chose IBM Power
    Power 9 is the only platform for our AIX and IBM workloads, but for Linux, we are using Power 9 to drive our highly threaded and memory intensive workloads as Power 9 provides better performance characteristics than the comparable x86 platform. With Power 9 we also have a much …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
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    Dell PowerEdgeIBM Power
    Small Businesses
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    Dell PowerEdge
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    HPE ProLiant DL
    Score5.9 out of 10
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Power
    Score9 out of 10
    IBM Z
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Dell PowerEdgeIBM Power
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    8.9
    (208 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.1
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    Performance
    -
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    9.1
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    Dell PowerEdgeIBM Power
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dell Technologies
    An excellent warranty and excellent technical assistance can be expected from the PowerEdge C Series, which comes from a well-known brand with a long track record in the market. Scalability, physical space optimization and performance and dependability for handling sensitive and vital data like databases and ERP systems that are fairly sophisticated are just some of the benefits we get from Dell gear, which saves us resources and energy by up to 40%.
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    IBM
    I'd strongly recommend IBM Power servers to anyone who has the budget for it. A Power Virtual Machine, what is generally called FlexTB VM, can support as many small VM of 256GB, and scale up to 32TB on the fly. If IBM recommended architecture is combined with your organizational reference architecture, then forget about running into unplanned downtimes.
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    Pros
    Dell Technologies
    • Good price - Compared to other vendors’ server platforms. In our scenario (virtualization) we found out PowerEdge offers the best price/vCPU and RAM ratio.
    • Customizable - We were able to select optimal memory/disk capacity for our use case. Other platform's minimum requirements were above our needs, hence needlessly expensive.
    • Good warranty and service - Our project did not involve creating a big cluster with a lot of spare capacity, so the next business day warranty came handy.
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    IBM
    • I love how it supports a mix of operating systems
    • protection of our sensitive energy data and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
    • It provides a flexibility that ensures that we can accommodate increased workloads without a complete overhaul of our infrastructure.
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    Cons
    Dell Technologies
    • The value of 24x7 support is expensive, the value of 8x5NBD is more attractive.
    • The other superior models of the C series are more expensive.
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    IBM
    • A solid IDE for editing programs. SEU was simple and solid. Then it became outdated and support for it ended as the language continued to evolve. That's fine. But RDi is expensive and shaky at best, and VS Code, while free, is severely lacking even the modicum of features RDi has.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dell Technologies
    It is the best server in the market.
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    IBM
    This is one of the best systems on the market. You can have Flash/Copy which created another LPAR to look like the system you are copying. This takes seconds and not minutes. Then you can use BRNS to do full system backups nightly with no downtime. I am ready for us to upgrade to a Power 10.
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    Usability
    Dell Technologies
    The Dell PowerEdge R range is just intuitive when you have skills engineers managing them in-house, although even with new members of staff on the team, the learning curve is very low providing they have previous general service hardware management experience. From the specification through to the management of this range, the usability is excellent.
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    IBM
    They are very easy to set up and use once you re knowledgeable enough to deal with it. They are continuously enhance the user experience on the HMC and operations on the systems. Once setup it's like a beast, going on and on. I have experience with servers that are not being rebooted for more than 1000 days
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    Reliability and Availability
    Dell Technologies
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    IBM
    In all of the years I have used various Power System, I have never had any problems at all. Even when hackers were attacking our email servers and many users PCs, the IBM Power System came out completely unscathed. I haven't even had any application errors that were able to take the system down. Nor have I ever experienced an unplanned outage
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    Performance
    Dell Technologies
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    IBM
    The IBM Power System is built for integration. It supports multiple operating systems and you can run multiple OS's on the same box with no problems at all. It also supports a number of open source languages such as PHP, Java, Python, and Perl which helps you continue to grow and integrate with lots of other systems.
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    Support Rating
    Dell Technologies
    We consider Dell's support to be best-in-class compared to other solutions and is also reasonably priced. Their SLA targets have almost always been met, except for minor occasions that have had extenuating circumstances. The service staff is also professional and thorough. Overall, we are very satisfied with the level of support we receive.
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    IBM
    On large-scale systems, the rating would have been 10. However, I have seen some cases in more rural areas where the IBM onsite support is not as available or of the highest quality as in the past. For software support, there are sometimes instances of language barriers.
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    Implementation Rating
    Dell Technologies
    Installation was easy.
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    IBM
    Systems are robust and you need to know exactly what your are going to do with them. There are multiple configurations possible and you need to gather your requirements first, before going on with the implementation. Tuning is a must before migrating production systems
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dell Technologies
    Against hp servers, Dell has outperformed them in terms of incidents regarding hardware memory parts. With the Dell PowerEdge R series servers we have not had any incidents regarding memory modules. On the other hand, with HP servers, we encountered a lot of failures regarding memory modules during the first year of implementation.
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    IBM
    Power server do not need a stack of software for viruses, spam and others... Power server do not need to have release often power server are much more strong then other manufacturer Power server do not need to restart offen
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    Scalability
    Dell Technologies
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    IBM
    This system can work in a small factory with a few users and easily scale out to thousands of users. It is truly amazing on how much you can throw at this box and it will just keep humming. It is great for use across multiple departments and even across multiple corporations. I worked at one company where we were hosting multiple corporations on just one large Power System and had ZERO problems.
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    Return on Investment
    Dell Technologies
    • From the perspective of physical server consolidations, when servers spread across multiple branch and remote offices are gathered into a central data center, this simplification process provides ROI in several ways. One, the configuration control, restriction of server access.
    • Reduce complexity and enable greater standardization of hardware purchases, which lowers costs.
    • Increased security of the move are important.
    • The costs of moves, add-ins, and changes are reduced, as well as the costs of travel time and maintenance.
    • Migrating legacy operating systems to a newer version via rehosting brings similar ROI benefits when it comes to server consolidation.
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    IBM
    • In the event of a crash, IBM Power servers offer a variety of simple options to recover the operating system.
    • With the flexibility offered by IBM Power servers, the production business can be improved by making the most of its physical servers.
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