Cisco UCS X-Series vs. IBM LinuxONE

Cisco UCS X-Series

Cisco UCS X-Series

22 Reviews and Ratings

IBM LinuxONE

IBM LinuxONE

35 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco UCS X-Series	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco UCS X-Series is a modular system designed for adaptability to simplify IT processes and speed innovation. The system provides users with the right-size infrastructure for the workload and enables operations with the efficiency and predictable TCO needed.	N/A
IBM LinuxONE	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	IBM LinuxONE is the company's high performance scalable mainframe servers, available in the Rockhopper and Emperor editions.	N/A

Pricing

Cisco UCS X-Series

IBM LinuxONE

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Pricing Offerings
Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Individual pricing on request

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Community Pulse
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Considered Both Products	Cisco UCS X-Series SP Stephen Parker Systems Engineer Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Cisco 5000 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5000) Incentivized Helpful? Philipp Penoliar SE Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Comparing to previous models of the UCS series of Cisco like the B and X series, Cisco UCS X-Series is the combination of the two, having the best of both devices. And having the intersight, that can managed the whole server in a cloud environment. Modularity from b series and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series we originally used IBM bladecenters, then migrated to Cisco UCS. Now moving to UCS x-series using intersight managed mode. We never used UCS Central or UCS Director. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Better management of the architecture made and better performance Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Cisco UCSX is better for me because it is easy to deploy the configuration when u creating the service profile and it is to navigate than using the old UCSM, it is also better for gathering the create ticket for cases and also we notify the vulnerability across the network and … Incentivized Helpful? BS Bhawani Shankar Satapathy AIX Administrator Chose Cisco UCS X-Series Dell PowerEdge R Incentivized Helpful? ND Nicholas Diesel Solutions Architect Chose Cisco UCS X-Series There are good use cases for both technologies, and each will have its place, UCS X-Series is good when looking at additional or external Storage solutions, and scalable computing performance in a compact form factor. Cisco HX is good for incorporating Compute and Storage in … Incentivized Helpful? Jessica Hull Database Administrator Chose Cisco UCS X-Series I have not worked with similar product in our company though we have been satisfied by great services offered by Cisco UCS X-series. It has modern applications that have equips our applications with technological power to work on enterprise workloads. The cloud operated … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Cisco UCS X-Series With the standard UCS series starting to be retired, the Cisco UCS X-Series was the logical replacement to stay in the Cisco portfolio. Incentivized Helpful?	IBM LinuxONE Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM LinuxONE LinuxONE has better scalability and price/performance metrics. Incentivized Helpful? ANDRE PARSAD Vice President,Internet Services Chose IBM LinuxONE The backing of IBM and its customer staff and expertise was very distinct vs competitors Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Small Businesses	Dell PowerEdge Score 10.0 out of 10	Dell PowerEdge Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	HPE ProLiant DL Score 5.9 out of 10	HPE ProLiant DL Score 5.9 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Z Score 9.3 out of 10	IBM Z Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Likelihood to Recommend	The Cisco UCS X-Series is well suited for anyone who currently is using UCS. While the recommended management via Intersight takes time to get used to it is a vast improvement over UCSM in terms of complexity. The ability to pair GPUs with blades now also helps to reduce the requirement for rack servers and their associated switch ports helping to increase ROI. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM LinuxONE dashboard is clean and friendly to welcome new users and the capabilities of the feature are excellent and easy to pull multiple data from other third parties platforms through the IBM LinuxONE integration functions and the data merging tools are very excellent. Multiple data processing operations are easily managed and monitored through this software and the reports are effective. Incentivized Cedeno Amanda .NET Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	Cisco Provide the Centralized management to collect all information. Easy User Interface to use and execute the daily routine operation. Performance and stability are much better. Incentivized BS Bhawani Shankar Satapathy AIX Administrator Read full review	Great security, if you configure things correctly Performance per instance is above average if you compare to commodity x86 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Config on the hardware specification of each server. E.g. bios, cpu power etc. FI edit of configuration can't be done Minimum # of psu Incentivized Philipp Penoliar SE Read full review	Deploying of the IBM LinuxONE is not easy to new users. Powerful machine is required. To generate quality services requires an experienced user. Incentivized Cedeno Amanda .NET Software Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	I have not worked with similar product in our company though we have been satisfied by great services offered by Cisco UCS X-series. It has modern applications that have equips our applications with technological power to work on enterprise workloads. The cloud operated infrastructure helps us to work on secure data and offer backup system that minimizes data lose. It has the power to deal with any volume of data using cloud-native applications. Incentivized Jessica Hull Database Administrator Read full review	The backing of IBM and its customer staff and expertise was very distinct vs competitors Incentivized ANDRE PARSAD Vice President,Internet Services Read full review
Return on Investment	We have been able to rapidly grow and deploy additional compute, as well as replace when needed The requirement for additional subscriptions/licenses for some of the automation should be baked in to the cost of hardware Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No downtime since we deployed IBM LinuxONE Incentivized MA Mehdi Ayouch CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) Read full review
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