Cisco UCS X-Series vs. IBM LinuxONE

Cisco UCS X-Series

Cisco UCS X-Series

22 Reviews and Ratings

IBM LinuxONE

34 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco UCS X-Series	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco UCS X-Series is a modular system designed for adaptability to simplify IT processes and enable quick innovation. The flexibility of the system provides users with the right-size infrastructure for the workload and enables operations with the efficiency and predictable TCO needed.	N/A
IBM LinuxONE	Score 6.8 out of 10	N/A	IBM LinuxONE is the company's high performance scalable mainframe servers, available in the Rockhopper and Emperor editions.	N/A

Pricing

Cisco UCS X-Series

IBM LinuxONE

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Individual pricing on request

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Community Pulse
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Top Pros	Pro Threat protection Pro Easy user interface Pro Cost savings	Pro Ibm power Pro Easy to build Pro Easy to manage
Top Cons	Minus Complex data Minus Full integration Minus Cisco devices	Minus Experienced user Minus Huge data Minus Bit challenging

Best Alternatives
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Small Businesses	Dell PowerEdge R Score 8.6 out of 10	Dell PowerEdge R Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	HPE ProLiant DL Score 7.3 out of 10	HPE ProLiant DL Score 7.3 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Z Score 9.3 out of 10	IBM Z Score 9.3 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (9 ratings)	8.5 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco UCS X-Series	IBM LinuxONE
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco I have experienced great services from this platform in both cloud and on-premise. It has streamlined technology in all our cloud servers providing operational centre for any kind of data. It has enhanced effective networking program that controls workflows in the entire organization. The modular system gives predictive insights that helps us to prepare for future and avoid any risks that can lead to drawback. Incentivized Jessica Hull Database Administrator Read full review	IBM IBM LinuxONE dashboard is clean and friendly to welcome new users and the capabilities of the feature are excellent and easy to pull multiple data from other third parties platforms through the IBM LinuxONE integration functions and the data merging tools are very excellent. Multiple data processing operations are easily managed and monitored through this software and the reports are effective. Incentivized Cedeno Amanda .NET Software Engineer Read full review
Pros	Cisco Cisco Provide the Centralized management to collect all information. Easy User Interface to use and execute the daily routine operation. Performance and stability are much better. Incentivized BS Bhawani Shankar Satapathy AIX Administrator Read full review	IBM Valuable insights from the reports Scalable Easy to manage different data centers Incentivized MA Mehdi Ayouch CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) Read full review
Cons	Cisco Full featured Intersight 1 slot, 4 socket blades. OS deployment without a license Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM We had some milestones we did not meet due to technical issues, we had to get those escalated and finally got them resolved. Incentivized ANDRE PARSAD Vice President,Internet Services Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco There are good use cases for both technologies, and each will have its place, UCS X-Series is good when looking at additional or external Storage solutions, and scalable computing performance in a compact form factor. Cisco HX is good for incorporating Compute and Storage in single ease of use form factor. Incentivized ND Nicholas Diesel Solutions Architect Read full review	IBM LinuxONE has better scalability and price/performance metrics. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Cisco Positive impacts for building VM based workloads Great impacts for building the next genration of apps running in microservices Positive impacts in management and extensibility Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	IBM Pulling of multiple and big data from different channels. Project workflow management is effective via the tool. Project data processing and data management. Incentivized Cedeno Amanda .NET Software Engineer Read full review
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