Dell PowerEdge

Dell PowerEdge

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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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	Dell PowerEdge
Considered Both Products	Dell Technologies Verified User Chose Dell PowerEdge Dell has an 8GB RAID card, while the competition has only a 4GB RAID card. Value for money with a good Return on Investment. Good service during the warranty period and post-warranty. The failure rate is less for Dell than when compared to HPE. Hence has high uptime. Dell is … Incentivized Helpful? 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? Verified User Chose Dell PowerEdge When it comes to multitasking networking and storage, I've always found Dell PowerEdge C to be the most effective solution. A network center that can service the whole business with capacity for future expansion is ideally suited for this device. The ability to consolidate data … Incentivized Helpful? Arvind Kumar Senior Consultant - VMware & Infrastructure in Information Technology at Versetal Information Systems (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Dell PowerEdge Both have different prospects, I have been working with Dell mostly, hence always prefer Dell. Incentivized Helpful? Kike Maldonado Project Manager in Information Technology at Vueling (Airlines/Aviation, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dell PowerEdge I have had experience with these other servers (not listed) and had a better experience with the Dell: IBM System X HP DL380 Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dell PowerEdge Whilst Dell & HP servers are pretty much the same commodity internals, we find equivalent spec Dell servers are almost always lower both initial purchase and ongoing support and maintenance. The software tools provided between HP and Dell are pretty much equivalent. Specifying … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dell PowerEdge Support and pricing is significantly improved with our switch to Dell from HPE products. Incentivized Helpful? Dmitry Malafeev Senior Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Drake Australia (Consumer Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Dell PowerEdge PowerEdge R servers was selected by CIO. I think the servers have lots of benefits for our company and are well placed on our projects. In most business cases they are working good and our management have a clear vision to upgrade them to the same brand with better specs. Hope … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dell PowerEdge We found Dell an easier company to work with than HPE overall since Dell allows you to purchase directly from them where HPE requires you to use a reseller. The PowerEdge R servers came in at a lower cost than a comparability speced HPE ProLaint DL. Both servers seemed … Incentivized Helpful? Craig West CEO (Chief Executive Officer) in Corporate at Psychwest, Clinical & Forensic Psychology, Inc. (Mental Health Care, 11-50 employees) Chose Dell PowerEdge Both systems are comparable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dell PowerEdge Dell PowerEdge R rack servers support almost the entire range of the applications and hardware ecosystems of IT OEMs. Provides higher throughput, energy efficiency, high performance at a much lower cost compared to various other leading solutions. The support ecosystem of the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dell PowerEdge They're less efficient. Incentivized Helpful? Yvonne Graber Founder/President in Information Technology at Computer Community Hospital (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Dell PowerEdge I have used only Dell for 18 years. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dell PowerEdge The initial investment for Dell PowerEdge R is much lower. Incentivized Helpful? Mostafa Dakam IT Administrator in Information Technology at Libyan Norwegian Fertilizer Company (Oil & Energy, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Dell PowerEdge We have used Sun Fire X4170 Servers before, they were reliable servers in terms of durability, but they always had issues were the servers are not responding or not booting, they also have higher response times for the individual VMs comparing to the PowerEdge R740 which have … Incentivized Helpful? Zakarieya Abderoef Solutions Architect in Information Technology at Baraka Technology Group (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Ashley Beal Senior Office Administrator in Information Technology at Harbour Technology Consulting (Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees) Chose Dell PowerEdge Dell PowerEdge Racks as opposed to Towers just differ in the way they are stored and can differ in the makeup of them. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Dell PowerEdge They perform essentially the same job duties, and while the HPE Blades offer much stronger density and options for expansion, the overall cost of the chassis was a major factor. We also found firmware and general support to be easier and better with Dell. I am fine using either … Incentivized Helpful? Vin Campbell IT Director in Information Technology at Sahadi Fine Foods (Retail, 11-50 employees) Chose Dell PowerEdge Our IT consultant firm at the time of purchase recommended these servers as part of a fuller infrastructure upgrade plan that we undertook in preparation for a major ERP & CRM systems upgrade. We did entertain the other similar systems I mentioned, but we trusted the vendor and … Incentivized Helpful? Hyler C Cooper Senior System Administrator in Information Technology at BrainSurf (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Dell PowerEdge These are very comparable products. I cannot speak to the current line of HP servers, but the older ones we replace with the Dell servers are typically less efficient. 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
	Dell PowerEdge
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (16 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (16 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)