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    Dell PowerEdge

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ADell's PowerEdge R is a line of rack servers, offering a range of options from cost-efficient one-socket servers to four-socket servers designed to support intensive and critical data center workloads.N/A

    Dell Unity XT Unified Storage

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADell Unity XT hybrid flash arrays are storage systems for running general purpose workloads that do not require the low latencies and speed of all flash/NVMe architectures. Unity XT hybrid flash arrays balance performance, efficiency, features or outcomes.N/A
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    Dell PowerEdgeDell Unity XT Unified Storage
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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 Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Dell PowerEdgeDell Unity XT Unified Storage
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    82%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
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    Features
    Dell PowerEdgeDell Unity XT Unified Storage
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Dell PowerEdge and Dell Unity XT Unified Storage
    Feature
    Dell PowerEdge
    -
    Ratings
    Dell Unity XT Unified Storage
    9.3
    16 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Flash Array Performance00 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration00 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Data Compression00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
    Simplicity00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
    Power Savings00 Ratings9.015 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Dell PowerEdgeDell Unity XT Unified Storage
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    HPE ProLiant DL
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Dell Compellent (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Power
    Score9 out of 10
    Everpure FlashArray
    Score8.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Dell PowerEdgeDell Unity XT Unified Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (23 ratings)
    8.0
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Dell PowerEdgeDell Unity XT Unified Storage
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Dell Technologies
    An excellent warranty and excellent technical assistance can be expected from the PowerEdge C Series, which comes from a well-known brand with a long track record in the market. Scalability, physical space optimization and performance and dependability for handling sensitive and vital data like databases and ERP systems that are fairly sophisticated are just some of the benefits we get from Dell gear, which saves us resources and energy by up to 40%.
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    Dell Technologies
    Dell EMC Unity is an easy system and very flexible component and very easy to navigate while providing effective services and management of multiple project information management and the data pulling from the supported third-party platform is easy and quick. Excellent reporting features and easy to use and the analytics tools are amazing.
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    Pros
    Dell Technologies
    • Good price - Compared to other vendors’ server platforms. In our scenario (virtualization) we found out PowerEdge offers the best price/vCPU and RAM ratio.
    • Customizable - We were able to select optimal memory/disk capacity for our use case. Other platform's minimum requirements were above our needs, hence needlessly expensive.
    • Good warranty and service - Our project did not involve creating a big cluster with a lot of spare capacity, so the next business day warranty came handy.
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    • Enables you to create multiple copies of any database.
    • Data savings feature with compression.
    • Integrity with VMWare, RHEL, Oracle.
    • The best option is a midrange unified storage array in a customer environment.
    • Some models support NMMe.
    • Copy Data Management (iCDM), Data-At-Rest-Encryption (D@RE).
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    Cons
    Dell Technologies
    • The value of 24x7 support is expensive, the value of 8x5NBD is more attractive.
    • The other superior models of the C series are more expensive.
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    Dell Technologies
    • Alerting: receiving an alert when an issue occurs. That is good to know. However, if the alert is cleared, or somehow no longer in alarm, no email is received. At times I will receive the email alert on weekends, not knowing if the issue is resolved or not until Monday when I can access the unit. I have learned in most instances, the alert is a false alarm, which could be a problem.
    • The alerting itself is sometimes not clear. For example, it tells me the link is down, we reset the connection, the link is still down, a tech was dispatched, he troubleshot, and finally the alarm cleared. This incident took almost a week. It went back into alarm after he left, then suddenly it cleared on its own.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Dell Technologies
    It is the best server in the market.
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    Usability
    Dell Technologies
    The Dell PowerEdge R range is just intuitive when you have skills engineers managing them in-house, although even with new members of staff on the team, the learning curve is very low providing they have previous general service hardware management experience. From the specification through to the management of this range, the usability is excellent.
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    Dell Technologies
    The Unity was easy to connect, set up and maintain
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    Support Rating
    Dell Technologies
    We consider Dell's support to be best-in-class compared to other solutions and is also reasonably priced. Their SLA targets have almost always been met, except for minor occasions that have had extenuating circumstances. The service staff is also professional and thorough. Overall, we are very satisfied with the level of support we receive.
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    Dell Technologies
    Dell EMC Unity, in my honest opinion, is basically an all-flash VNX with a better interface. There is ZERO innovation coming out of EMC. If you want a company that's going to give you good support and be proud of their product instead of their profit margin, I strongly urge you to look elsewhere as there are better and more innovative products in the marketplace.
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    Implementation Rating
    Dell Technologies
    Installation was easy.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Dell Technologies
    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 memory modules during the first year of implementation.
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    Dell Technologies
    I was instructed to buy these arrays, but I was not given the opportunity to evaluate other arrays. We evaluated other products in the market that competed with Unity and found that the younger array built from scratch had far better features, software, and ease of use. The Unity system has a unique way of storing the data when compared with other systems.
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    Return on Investment
    Dell Technologies
    • From the perspective of physical server consolidations, when servers spread across multiple branch and remote offices are gathered into a central data center, this simplification process provides ROI in several ways. One, the configuration control, restriction of server access.
    • Reduce complexity and enable greater standardization of hardware purchases, which lowers costs.
    • Increased security of the move are important.
    • The costs of moves, add-ins, and changes are reduced, as well as the costs of travel time and maintenance.
    • Migrating legacy operating systems to a newer version via rehosting brings similar ROI benefits when it comes to server consolidation.
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    Dell Technologies
    • Less business downtime and reliability is a major business concern. DELL EMC UNITY addresses this concern well and provides robust storage.
    • Investing in UNITY system is less expensive than all-flash storage systems.
    • Managing and provisioning VMware disks became simpler from a single interface in the Vcenter
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