We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers and IBM Power Systems based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rack Servers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What I really like about the Cisco USC Server is its service profile."
"Cisco rack servers are very easy to integrate with other products from different vendors."
"We have many people in my organization using Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers in the administration."
"The most valuable features of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers are integration and customization."
"The initial setup is straightforward and easy to do."
"Its hardware is really reliable. We also like Cisco for its support."
"The C-series is the most valuable."
"The solution is scalable."
"Power runs our resilient data systems, our high-end databases, stuff that can't go down."
"We have had a good experience with the technical support team at IBM."
"From a reliability standpoint it has provided us with excellent performance."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Additionally, the processing power is far superior, especially with the RSA feature for reliability, serviceability, and availability."
"Active Memory Expansion allows you to compress your memory on the run time to allow you to have less physical memory available, but provision more memory to your partitions, as everything will be compressed on the fly."
"The backups work great, data recovery works great."
"When it comes to reliability, availability and profitability, nothing can beat IBM Power Systems."
"There is room for better integration with other brands."
"The hard drive of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is not very good. I have already replaced three of them."
"The improvement should be done as per customer requirements."
"I think the pricing is high. Cisco has to look for bundling this solutions with other applications."
"Cisco UCS C-Series Rack could improve by selling storage. Cisco doesn't sell storage, which is a problem because some customers ask for storage. There are several brands in the market, such as HPE, and Dell EMC. However, Cisco doesn't have any storage. This is where the tension comes from buying this solution."
"Technical support could be more responsive."
"On the contact center and video conferencing, I would definitely like to see more AI features. The AI features are key for us. You will find a lot of them in the cloud-based solution, but in the on-premises solution, they're hardly there. I would like to see the same AI features that are there in the cloud-based Cisco UC."
"The solution can be improved by adjusting the cost."
"I would like to see IBM Power Systems integrate with all cloud types."
"There are improvements that can be made on the technical side."
"It does not offer the ability to run any X86 or X64 Intel architecture-based application on Power Systems. There are a lot of applications, lots of business use cases that do not support this architecture as of now. If somehow application tasks can be ported on to IBM Power Systems, that would be a big improvement."
"Power Systems' price could always be lower."
"Everyone likes speed. Not that speed has been an issue up until now but you can never be too fast."
"If you take advantage of some of these real advanced features, for oversubscribing as an example, it's not supported on Linux on Power. So that stops us, in particular, from going that way."
"The scalability process should be simplified."
"IBM should provide a platform where users can learn about the storage and security of IBM Power Systems."
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Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is ranked 5th in Rack Servers with 29 reviews while IBM Power Systems is ranked 4th in Rack Servers with 69 reviews. Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is rated 8.4, while IBM Power Systems is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers writes "The VIC card is the most important feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Power Systems writes "A solution with minimal downtime and quick recovery time in the event of a sudden or unexpected crash". Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers is most compared with Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers, Dell XR2 Rugged Server and HPE Apollo, whereas IBM Power Systems is most compared with Intel Server System, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, Oracle SPARC Servers and HPE ProLiant DL Servers. See our Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers vs. IBM Power Systems report.
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