IBM LinuxONE vs. IBM Power servers

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM LinuxONE
Score 6.8 out of 10
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IBM LinuxONE is the company's high performance scalable mainframe servers, available in the Rockhopper and Emperor editions.N/A
IBM Power servers
Score 9.1 out of 10
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The IBM Power product line is a family of servers.N/A
Pricing
IBM LinuxONEIBM Power servers
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM LinuxONEIBM Power servers
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsIndividual pricing on request
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Community Pulse
IBM LinuxONEIBM Power servers
Top Pros

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Best Alternatives
IBM LinuxONEIBM Power servers
Small Businesses
Dell PowerEdge R
Dell PowerEdge R
Score 8.6 out of 10
Dell PowerEdge R
Dell PowerEdge R
Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
HPE ProLiant DL
HPE ProLiant DL
Score 7.4 out of 10
HPE ProLiant DL
HPE ProLiant DL
Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Z
IBM Z
Score 9.3 out of 10
IBM Z
IBM Z
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
IBM LinuxONEIBM Power servers
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(4 ratings)
9.1
(208 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(4 ratings)
Availability
-
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9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(8 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(4 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM LinuxONEIBM Power servers
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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IBM
I'd strongly recommend IBM Power servers to anyone who has the budget for it. A Power Virtual Machine, what is generally called FlexTB VM, can support as many small VM of 256GB, and scale up to 32TB on the fly. If IBM recommended architecture is combined with your organizational reference architecture, then forget about running into unplanned downtimes.
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Pros
IBM
  • Valuable insights from the reports
  • Scalable
  • Easy to manage different data centers
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IBM
  • I love how it supports a mix of operating systems
  • protection of our sensitive energy data and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.
  • It provides a flexibility that ensures that we can accommodate increased workloads without a complete overhaul of our infrastructure.
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Cons
IBM
  • 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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IBM
  • A solid IDE for editing programs. SEU was simple and solid. Then it became outdated and support for it ended as the language continued to evolve. That's fine. But RDi is expensive and shaky at best, and VS Code, while free, is severely lacking even the modicum of features RDi has.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
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IBM
This is one of the best systems on the market. You can have Flash/Copy which created another LPAR to look like the system you are copying. This takes seconds and not minutes. Then you can use BRNS to do full system backups nightly with no downtime. I am ready for us to upgrade to a Power 10.
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Usability
IBM
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IBM
They are very easy to set up and use once you re knowledgeable enough to deal with it. They are continuously enhance the user experience on the HMC and operations on the systems. Once setup it's like a beast, going on and on. I have experience with servers that are not being rebooted for more than 1000 days
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Reliability and Availability
IBM
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IBM
In all of the years I have used various Power System, I have never had any problems at all. Even when hackers were attacking our email servers and many users PCs, the IBM Power System came out completely unscathed. I haven't even had any application errors that were able to take the system down. Nor have I ever experienced an unplanned outage
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Performance
IBM
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IBM
The IBM Power System is built for integration. It supports multiple operating systems and you can run multiple OS's on the same box with no problems at all. It also supports a number of open source languages such as PHP, Java, Python, and Perl which helps you continue to grow and integrate with lots of other systems.
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Support Rating
IBM
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IBM
On large-scale systems, the rating would have been 10. However, I have seen some cases in more rural areas where the IBM onsite support is not as available or of the highest quality as in the past. For software support, there are sometimes instances of language barriers.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
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IBM
Systems are robust and you need to know exactly what your are going to do with them. There are multiple configurations possible and you need to gather your requirements first, before going on with the implementation. Tuning is a must before migrating production systems
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
LinuxONE has better scalability and price/performance metrics.
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IBM
Power server do not need a stack of software for viruses, spam and others... Power server do not need to have release often power server are much more strong then other manufacturer Power server do not need to restart offen
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Scalability
IBM
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IBM
This system can work in a small factory with a few users and easily scale out to thousands of users. It is truly amazing on how much you can throw at this box and it will just keep humming. It is great for use across multiple departments and even across multiple corporations. I worked at one company where we were hosting multiple corporations on just one large Power System and had ZERO problems.
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • Pulling of multiple and big data from different channels.
  • Project workflow management is effective via the tool.
  • Project data processing and data management.
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IBM
  • In the event of a crash, IBM Power servers offer a variety of simple options to recover the operating system.
  • With the flexibility offered by IBM Power servers, the production business can be improved by making the most of its physical servers.
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