Dell PowerEdge vs. IBM Z

Dell PowerEdge

Dell PowerEdge

75 Reviews and Ratings

IBM Z

IBM Z

134 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Dell PowerEdge	Score 7.8 out of 10	N/A	Dell'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
IBM Z	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	IBM Z is the company's mainframe enterprise server solution product line.	N/A

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	Dell PowerEdge	IBM Z
Considered Both Products	Dell PowerEdge Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Sudipta Banerjee Product Manager Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerEdge When it comes to multitasking networking and storage, I've always found Dell PowerEdge C to be the most effective solution. A network center that can service the whole business with capacity for future expansion is ideally suited for this device. The ability to consolidate data … Incentivized Helpful? Arvind Kumar Senior Consultant - VMware & Infrastructure Chose Dell PowerEdge Both have different prospects, I have been working with Dell mostly, hence always prefer Dell. Incentivized Helpful? KM Kike Maldonado Project Manager Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerEdge I have had experience with these other servers (not listed) and had a better experience with the Dell: IBM System X HP DL380 Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerEdge 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. Specifying … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerEdge Support and pricing is significantly improved with our switch to Dell from HPE products. Incentivized Helpful? DM Dmitry Malafeev Senior Systems Engineer Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? CW Craig West CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Dell PowerEdge Both systems are comparable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerEdge They're less efficient. Incentivized Helpful? Yvonne Graber Founder/President Chose Dell PowerEdge I have used only Dell for 18 years. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerEdge The initial investment for Dell PowerEdge R is much lower. Incentivized Helpful? Mostafa Dakam IT Administrator Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Zakarieya Abderoef Solutions Architect Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Ashley Beal Senior Office Administrator Chose Dell PowerEdge Dell PowerEdge Racks as opposed to Towers just differ in the way they are stored and can differ in the makeup of them. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Vin Campbell IT Director Chose Dell PowerEdge 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Hyler C Cooper Senior System Administrator Chose Dell PowerEdge 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. Incentivized Helpful?	IBM Z Ray Chabot Senior Technical Specialist Chose IBM Z Cost, control and staffing for intensive, low or zero-downtime applications can be significantly less costly on Z. Incentivized Helpful? Sushil Arya Software consultant Chose IBM Z These are not that effective when there is a lot of data, and the outage is more in other products as compared to the IBM Z. The processing Capabilities of the Z OS are much better than these products since, in my organization, the processing data is huge, and the IBM Z is best … Incentivized Helpful? Judy L. Berglund Sr Systems Engineer Chose IBM Z From an IBM Z Mainframe standpoint, there is no other platform that can even touch with the mainframe can do. This is why it is the best of breed and has been for over 60 years. There are a large number of third party products available for use on the mainframe. From job … Incentivized Helpful? Josef Leitner Systemtechniker Chose IBM Z There is no competitor when you really run a banking infrastructure with a CICS Transaction System, Cobol- or PL1- Programs and DB2 Databases running under the operating system z/OS. Also when you migrate your programs to JAVA z/OS is still the platform where you want to stay … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Z No real competitor for large scale mainframe. iSeries can be used for mid-sized solutions. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Z My answer is yes. This made moving to the cloud much easier. The main benefits of this are latency and data extraction. The speed, security and reliability is the game changer and where it stacks up when compared to other IBM products. Additionally, increasing the workload is … Incentivized Helpful? Sreehari Somasundaran IBM Z Leader Chose IBM Z Was the natural choice of platform as it was driven by the application requirements Incentivized Helpful? Florian Schwanzara Solution Planning Senior Manager Chose IBM Z No one can deliver a Hardware Security Module with FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certification than IBM. And the value and ease of use in the IBM cloud with the Hyper Protect Crypto Service are just not compatible to the other vendors. And with Unified Key Orchestrator I can also manage … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Z IBM Power Systems has lot of benefits like IBM Z, with easier integration options to other systems. Incentivized Helpful? DK Dana Kendall Senior Project Manager Chose IBM Z Its working was very slow. No free trails and we don't like it. That's why we switch on IBM Z. Incentivized Helpful? Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Chose IBM Z We recenetly attepted to evaluate moving an application to the MicroFocus environment. The initial assessment failed because of cost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Z IBM Z is the best storage solution as it provides the best in class data protection with the cryptographic hardware keys, no loss in data while migration, and a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for develops to understand and has less of a learning curve. This makes it … Incentivized Helpful? PG Paul Gandolfo Principal Performance Analyst Chose IBM Z IBM/IMS Tools compare favorably in use and performance against other vendors such as BMC. We support both within all our mainframe/zOS products so our users have the flexibility to choose the tools that work best for them and their users and budgets. Incentivized Helpful? Vinay Damle Associate Director Chose IBM Z IBM Z is the winner when dealing with enormous transactions In terms of security as well IBM Z is a better option compared to other alternatives Excellent is dealing with large batch processing in multiple environments. Incentivized Helpful? Yasar Qamar Mainframe Support Analyst Chose IBM Z There is no alternative to IBM Z available in the market when it comes to large volume server processing. Incentivized Helpful? Dana Rafiee Director of Worldwide Strategic Consulting Chose IBM Z When it comes to deploying enterprise applications requiring serious resources that cannot be constrained, IBM Z and IBM Power 9 do a great job. However, they are in different classes of service. For high powered applications, we rarely utilize Intel architectures because the … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Littlejohn I/T Sr. Database Administrator Chose IBM Z No other product have been used or evaluated. Incentivized Helpful? RA Robert Alberico Senior Architect Chose IBM Z We currently have both X Linux and Windows platforms. The Windows applications support some of the smaller business units within Highmark very well and Z is probably not a solution for those environments. X Linux won out over Z Linux due to the processor requirements of the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Z Specifically, Storage products attached to IBM Z Mainframe Technology. Hitachi Direct Access Storage Devices seems not to have as many hardware failures as some other IBM DASD. EMC DLM8100 Technology is used to support our FEP Disaster Recovery plan as we support DRE for the … Incentivized Helpful? PW patrick white Senior Engineer Chose IBM Z IBM Z is faster and more reliable, when compared to all of the other alternatives we evaluated. It's also great due to the ease of maintenance. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Z IBM Z is a very powerful technology and it will only improve from here. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose IBM Z I strictly work on IBM Z Incentivized Helpful? RJ Richard Johnson Senior Technical Specialist Chose IBM Z We believe in the right workload on the right platform. Z/OS is able to run more workloads than ever before and still with the lowest headcount required. Incentivized Helpful? MB Mike Barone Analyst Academy Chose IBM Z These items are not really compatible at all, so the comparison is not really valid. A mainframe may access the network by using an ISR router, but an ISR router would not replace anything that the mainframe does. I am new to the technology field, so I have not worked with many … Incentivized Helpful? DH Dan Hines Infrastructure Archtitect Chose IBM Z IBM Z is our primary System of Record and, with many other platforms, of accessing data on the Z Server. There is no other comparable platform Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Dell PowerEdge	IBM Z
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	Dell PowerEdge Score 7.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	HPE ProLiant DL Score 8.7 out of 10	HPE ProLiant DL Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Z Score 9.4 out of 10	IBM Power Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Dell PowerEdge	IBM Z
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	4.0 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.9 (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Dell PowerEdge	IBM Z
Likelihood to Recommend	PowerEdge C Series is very reliable equipment from a reference manufacturer in the market with a lot of experience and one of the best warranty and technical support services. Dell hardware provides us with resource savings, energy savings of up to 40%, scalability, physical space optimization, and performance and reliability to handle sensitive and critical data such as databases and ERP systems that are quite complex. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We found its Data processing marvelous, and its benefit to accomplish chores in time gives us high authenticity and availability to the data deposit with accelerated admittance. One thing I will say that try to make it more user-friendly as it is difficult to learn. We liked it overall; Working is very good. Incentivized DK Dana Kendall Senior Project Manager Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Transactional processing, including data entry across multiple departments Reporting on massive amounts of data, due to its scale and size of processing capabilities Analytics on data as there are various accelerators for both IBM's databases and others such as Oracle Security is another major benefit to this platform as it contains a non-open systems design Incentivized Dana Rafiee Director of Worldwide Strategic Consulting Read full review
Cons	Getting DSAT report remotely does becomes a challenge sometimes Server rebooting becomes an issue, it does not starts up easily Server heats up sometimes a lot, emitting lot of noice Sudipta Banerjee Product Manager Read full review	IBM needs to add more focus on simplifying mainframe usage and management. Most modern programmers interface with the Z using an IDE. However, performing many tasks, such as cataloging a data set or checking on a job status, can require switching to the ISPF interface. Users want to interface with a GUI, not a function-key, menu and character-based interface like ISPF. Anything that can simplify and modernize interfacing with the mainframe should be a high priority for IBM. The IBM Z platform is one of the most instrumented computing platforms in the world, so there are a lot of metrics that could be automatically analyzed and used to improve the performance and management of the mainframe environment. Incentivized Craig Mullins President & Principal Consultant Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It is the best server in the market. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The IBM Z mainframe capabilities are unmatched for cloud readiness and optimization the learning capabilities are matched perfectly with Watson and the expandability of the cloud makes it a perfect choice. Incentivized Jesse Garza Senior Analyst Performance Reporting Read full review
Usability	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. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	pay as you go pricing Incentivized Jesse Garza Senior Analyst Performance Reporting Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	The Z in IBM Z is for zero down time. If you configure your system according to IBM's best practices, you can achieve zero downtime Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	Performance is a major part when you configure your system. IBM has many tools to study your system and suggest the appropriate configuration. With the right contract, you can add processing power dynamically and remove it when no longer needed Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Support is usually superb, only occasionally dropping to very good. We participate in some of the CD (Continuous Delivery) aspects of z/OS, IMS, MQ, and DB2. Incentivized PG Paul Gandolfo Principal Performance Analyst Read full review
In-Person Training	No answers on this topic	Over my 33 years on this platform, I attended many in person courses, conferences, and other training opportunities. Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	There are many online courses from both IBM and other vendors. Most are great. All of the documentation is available online. Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
Implementation Rating	Installation was easy. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I do not personally have any key insights regarding implementation of IBM Z Enterprise Servers as that is what our mainframe architects do. Incentivized Jesse Garza Senior Analyst Performance Reporting Read full review
Alternatives Considered	When it comes to multitasking networking and storage, I've always found Dell PowerEdge C to be the most effective solution. A network center that can service the whole business with capacity for future expansion is ideally suited for this device. The ability to consolidate data into a single storage system has reduced workloads. Using this platform is simple and the customer support team is constantly available. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	My answer is yes. This made moving to the cloud much easier. The main benefits of this are latency and data extraction. The speed, security and reliability is the game changer and where it stacks up when compared to other IBM products. Additionally, increasing the workload is also very helpful. Use a single platform to avoid unnecessary activities and actions, help maintain safety, and even recover quickly. Activities that users are unable to continue and complete tasks help avoid mistakes when there are errors related to And because it's perfect for your users, it has less impact on your business. Always ready for backup. I didn't even care about the migrations that were performed. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	If you need more processing power, just add more CPU's or memory. The largest system can have close to 200 CPU's and 40 TB of memory. If that is not enough, you can add more physical computers, and connect them using a sysplex Incentivized Gadi Ben-Avi z/OS system Programmer Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized CW Craig West CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review	It has increased the reliability of data which has decreased our dependence on legacy systems. It has no loss while migration which has a positive impact on ROI as we don't have to worry about data loss. It has multi tasking and support for non-cobol applications on mainframe. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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