IBM Power

IBM Power

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

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Considered Both Products	IBM Verified User Chose IBM Power IBM Power servers are more secure and offer more reliability than the HPE solution. It is also much more scalable and can grow with the organization's needs. HPE's server solution can too, but it is more 'clunky' and requires more configuration, whereas IBM's Power servers seem … Incentivized Helpful? Vinay Salvanca Head Of Physics Department at FIITJEE Limited (E-Learning, 201-500 employees) Chose IBM Power Skip Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Power IBM Power servers are reliable and provide all the utility and performance required. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Power 1. Cost effective 2.Highly scalable 3.Fantastic performance. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Power We did not try any other similar offering. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Power The performance, reliability and scalability offered by IBM Power servers were no match for others. And the other lacked in the self service suites and softwares for effective management of the infrastructure. Also the others are not robust enough to take our workload. The … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Power Power server do not need a stack of software for viruses, spam and others... Power server do not need to have release often power server are much more strong then other manufacturer Incentivized Helpful? Melvin Vladimir Gonzalez Cerda Engineering Technician in Information Technology at GBM (Computer & Network Security, 1001-5000 employees) Chose IBM Power Higher level of processing. 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? Andres Cordoba Rossi Power Infrastructure Manager in Information Technology at Dia Group (Retail, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Power There is simply no comparison, power systems are at an infinitely higher level in reliability, availability and serviceability. Incentivized Helpful? Steve Longenecker AIX System Engineer in Information Technology at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose IBM Power For tier 1 clinical applications, there are generally two platform choices. AIX on Power and RHEL on VMwware or some other Hypervisor. When we purchased EPIC and Soft, AIX on Power was either the only option or the leading UNIX option. At the time Linux was not offered. Today … Incentivized Helpful? Indika Fernando Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Mouser Electronics (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose IBM Power We always buy IBM Power/Aix systems for our business-critical applications, because we like to sleep sound at night. There's always Dell & HP for our VMware setup which runs a bunch of RHEL servers. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose IBM Power The IBM power systems are really appreciable all the time, and there are many types of powerful servers, and all of the servers are unique. Each one has its own specialty. The big difference that we saw is about the latency itself, and it seems to be like all the other … Incentivized Helpful? 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 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? Verified User Chose IBM Power We chose to go with buying our own hardware and co-locating it because it was lower cost overall. Incentivized Helpful? Alexandre Carvalho Information Technology Engineer in Information Technology at IBM (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose IBM Power It really depends on each client and what they have regarding hardware and software. If the client has a partnership with IBM or is using IBM software, usually they go with IBM hardware. If the client is a Dell partner, it usually goes with Dell hardware running Linux, and so on. 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 main advantage is that it keeps complicated environments and apps in use included. Other servers either wouldn't allow me to use them or wouldn't let me use them smoothly enough, but this server was heavy and packed with features. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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User Ratings
	IBM Power
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (208 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.1 (7 ratings)
Usability	9.5 (4 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (8 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.4 (4 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (1 ratings)