Cisco UCS Series vs. HPE BladeSystem

Cisco UCS Series

141 Reviews and Ratings

HPE BladeSystem

27 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
HPE BladeSystem	Score9.4 out of 10	N/A	HPE BladeSystem is a brand of blade server, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. HPE blades include the ProLiant BL series and the ProLiant WS series.	N/A

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Cisco UCS Series

HPE BladeSystem

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Pricing Offerings
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Key User Insights
	Cisco UCS Series	HPE BladeSystem
Considered Both Products	Cisco Jaime Valero Lead Disaster Recovery Management EMEA in Information Technology at Nike Inc (Apparel & Fashion, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco UCS Series It integrates perfectly with Cisco NEXUS switches, which we use on our infrastructure, giving us a seamless experience on the implementation and configuration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco UCS Series They are very comparable. To be honest, I don't think you can go wrong with any of the major manufacturers. What it always comes down to me is ease of use, reliability, and most of all cost. If I can put a server in production and the end of life is 7 to 10 years down the road … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco UCS Series Cheaper cost but was very buggy. Incentivized Helpful?	Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Verified User Chose HPE BladeSystem It's been said that BladeSystem is very similar to the UCS B-Series. While the network fabric features of the UCS B-Series outshine those of the BladeSystem, HPE has created extensive orchestration within HPE OneView to provide feature parity with and even surpass those of the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose HPE BladeSystem Within our organization, HPE BladeSystem enjoyed widespread recognition. Also, HPE Apollo can't make advantage of Virtual Connect, so every Apollo server needs to be hardwired into the LAN. That has far-reaching consequences for the network portal. We would then need to install … Incentivized Helpful? Khairul Islam Tonmoy Software Developer in Product Management at STAR TECH IT solution Ltd (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose HPE BladeSystem Within our organization, the HPE BladeSystem was a widely recognized brand. We're a customer/end-user. Working with the blade server is fun, and it's easy to keep track of everything. On a scale from one to Incentivized Helpful? Chris Saenz Lead System Engineer in Information Technology at Azusa Pacific University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose HPE BladeSystem We tested Cisco UCS in its early days, so this might be a bit of an old comparison, but UCS had the promise of being very configurable, with templates for everything and automatable for just about every task. However, even working with a Cisco engineer for weeks, we could not … Incentivized Helpful?
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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
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User Ratings
	Cisco UCS Series	HPE BladeSystem
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (56 ratings)	9.0 (11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (1 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	7.8 (7 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (10 ratings)	- (0 ratings)