IBM POWER8 Servers vs IBM LinuxONE

Likelihood to Recommend

Do you run Windows loads? Are those loads exclusive to Windows? If yes, that's the only case where you cannot take advantage of POWER8 Systems.For all the other cases, workloads run better on POWER8. It doesn't matter if they are OLTP or web servers, in AIX, IBM i or Linux (Big Endian OR Little Endian), POWER8 Systems can run it. For HPC or AI cases where you need powerful GPU-CPU communication, POWER8 Machines have you covered as well, boasting better training times for AI models.

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Roberto Etcheverry

Solution Architect

ROER International SAComputer Hardware, 11-50 employees

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Well suited for: Hot/Hot active environments.

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ANDRE PARSAD

Vice President,Internet Services

Countrywide Financial CorpBanking, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

Performance
Flexibility
Security

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 501-1000 employees

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Great security, if you configure things correctly
Performance per instance is above average if you compare to commodity x86

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Program Manager in Product Management

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

The noise levels for the scale-out machines are too much for small offices.

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Roberto Etcheverry

Solution Architect

ROER International SAComputer Hardware, 11-50 employees

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We had some milestones we did not meet due to technical issues, we had to get those escalated and finally got them resolved.

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ANDRE PARSAD

Vice President,Internet Services

Countrywide Financial CorpBanking, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

When deciding on servers to run our critical applications IBM Power systems are always at the top of our list. The tradition of reliability, performance and security is unmatched in the industry. We have a large VMware environment running x86 servers but they mainly support windows based applications like exchange

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Consumer Goods Company, 501-1000 employees

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LinuxONE has better scalability and price/performance metrics.

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Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

POWER8 Machines have allowed our customers to stay current on hardware and software, and to comply with the security standards required for communication.
Newer and faster machines have solved bottlenecks in our customers' workflows, meeting their growing demands.
POWER8 Introduces support for little endian Linux, which solves a problem some customers had when migrating to POWER8 Systems (the specific code that had endian-ness dependencies).

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Roberto Etcheverry

Solution Architect

ROER International SAComputer Hardware, 11-50 employees

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Customer satisfaction from business units
TCOA cost reduction
Reduced maintenance cost

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ANDRE PARSAD

Vice President,Internet Services

Countrywide Financial CorpBanking, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional