Dell has an 8GB RAID card, while the competition has only a 4GB RAID card. Value for money with a good Return on Investment. Good service during the warranty period and post-warranty. The failure rate is less for Dell than when compared to HPE. Hence has high uptime. Dell is …
Better Management, Better ROI, Better Supply Chain System ensures timely delivery even in recent times where Supply Chain has become a big issue. Also ensuring timely project completion leading to chain effect like customer able to utilize their budget within timelines and we …
Against hp servers, Dell has outperformed them in terms of incidents regarding hardware memory parts. With the Dell PowerEdge R series servers we have not had any incidents regarding memory modules. On the other hand, with HP servers, we encountered a lot of failures regarding …
I have had experience with these other servers (not listed) and had a better experience with the Dell: IBM System X HP DL380
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Dell PowerEdge R rack servers support almost the entire range of the applications and hardware ecosystems of IT OEMs. Provides higher throughput, energy efficiency, high performance at a much lower cost compared to various other leading solutions. The support ecosystem of the …
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Whilst Dell & HP servers are pretty much the same commodity internals, we find equivalent spec Dell servers are almost always lower both initial purchase and ongoing support and maintenance. The software tools provided between HP and Dell are pretty much equivalent.
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Support and pricing is significantly improved with our switch to Dell from HPE products.
PowerEdge R servers was selected by CIO. I think the servers have lots of benefits for our company and are well placed on our projects. In most business cases they are working good and our management have a clear vision to upgrade them to the same brand with better specs. Hope …
We found Dell an easier company to work with than HPE overall since Dell allows you to purchase directly from them where HPE requires you to use a reseller. The PowerEdge R servers came in at a lower cost than a comparability speced HPE ProLaint DL. Both servers seemed …
We have used Sun Fire X4170 Servers before, they were reliable servers in terms of durability, but they always had issues were the servers are not responding or not booting, they also have higher response times for the individual VMs comparing to the PowerEdge R740 which have …
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 …
They perform essentially the same job duties, and while the HPE Blades offer much stronger density and options for expansion, the overall cost of the chassis was a major factor. We also found firmware and general support to be easier and better with Dell. I am fine using either …
Our IT consultant firm at the time of purchase recommended these servers as part of a fuller infrastructure upgrade plan that we undertook in preparation for a major ERP & CRM systems upgrade. We did entertain the other similar systems I mentioned, but we trusted the vendor and …
These are very comparable products. I cannot speak to the current line of HP servers, but the older ones we replace with the Dell servers are typically less efficient.