Cisco UCS Series vs. Dell PowerEdge

Cisco UCS Series

141 Reviews and Ratings

Dell PowerEdge

74 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco UCS Series	Score9.4 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco UCS Series is a modular, high-density, high-availability, dual-node storage- optimized server suited for service providers, enterprises, and industry-specific environments. It provides dense, cost-effective storage to address your ever-growing data needs. Designed for a new class of data-intensive workloads, it is simple to deploy and excellent for applications for big data, data protection, software-defined storage environments, scale-out unstructured data repositories, media…	N/A
Dell PowerEdge	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Dell'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

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Cisco UCS Series

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	Cisco UCS Series	Dell PowerEdge
Considered Both Products	Cisco Mitch Kumar (CCIE-DC) Sr Solutions Architect in Customer Service at Froedtert Health (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco UCS Series Flexibility, efficiency, foot print and converged solution are some of the differentiators for preferring Cisco UCS Solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco UCS Series WHereas all vendors provided a wide range fo x86 processor support, Cisco provided the most useful configurations. HPE needed to outsource to 3rd party vendors for parts but was the most cost effective Dell didn't have small form factor processors needed but did offer more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco UCS Series The Cisco UCS Series systems have far fewer hardware issues than the competition and seem to run longer than what we would be able to. They are also easier to manage from an admin perspective with easy to use tools, the right diagnostic and alerting and remote administration … Incentivized Helpful? Ganesh Doddi Infrastructure Designer in Information Technology at Bupa (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco UCS Series Huge difference Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco UCS Series We choose this product over others on the market because it is simple to configure, and Cisco's help during the onboarding process is exceptional. Customers may choose from a variety of other products on the market. Also, the vendor-provided trainings facilitate the team's … Incentivized Helpful? Chethan Chandra IT Technology Principal Consultant in Information Technology at SAP Labs India (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco UCS Series We started hosting for our SaaS offering using [Cisco] UCS [Series] and at some point, we wanted to scale up and out. This is where we looked for alternatives. This also gave rise to our multi-vendor strategy. Today we have more than 2,000 servers in our datacenters, a mix of … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco UCS Series The Cisco systems are much more compact and you can fill it full of blades that are equally or even more powerful than the full-size HP and Dell units of similar specs. Cisco has managed to make everything super easy to use, wire, and configure. Once it's running, you don't … Incentivized Helpful?	Dell Technologies Sudipta Banerjee Product Manager in Information Technology at Corporate Infotech Private Limited (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Dell PowerEdge Better Management, Better ROI, Better Supply Chain System ensures timely delivery even in recent times where Supply Chain has become a big issue. Also ensuring timely project completion leading to chain effect like customer able to utilize their budget within timelines and we … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	Cisco UCS Series	Dell PowerEdge
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (56 ratings)	10.0 (23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (1 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.8 (7 ratings)	10.0 (16 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (10 ratings)	10.0 (16 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)