Dell PowerEdge vs. IBM Power

Dell PowerEdge

74 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Power

411 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
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
IBM Power	Score9 out of 10	N/A	The IBM Power product line is a family of servers.	N/A

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Dell PowerEdge

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Pricing Offerings
Dell PowerEdge	IBM Power
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Key User Insights
	Dell PowerEdge	IBM Power
Considered Both Products	Dell Technologies 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?	IBM Dana Kendall Senior Project Manager in Research & Development at AECOM (Civil Engineering, 10,001+ employees) 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Alejandro Rojas Gerente de Tecnologia in Information Technology at ABC Color (Newspapers, 201-500 employees) Chose IBM Power We have no chance to have the same development in a Intel Server Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Maqsood Ahmed Technical Fellow in Information Technology at paccar (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Dell PowerEdge	IBM 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	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (16 ratings)	9.2 (8 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)	8.4 (4 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)