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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM LinuxONE

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AIBM LinuxONE is the company's high performance scalable mainframe servers, available in the Rockhopper and Emperor editions.N/A

    Supermicro SuperBlade

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASuperBlade is a high density x86 Multi-Node Server for Enterprise Cloud, HPC Applications, from Supermicro. They are available in 8U, 6U and 4U enclosures with hot-swap NVMe support, with air or direct liquid cooling.N/A
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    IBM LinuxONESupermicro SuperBlade
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    IBM LinuxONESupermicro SuperBlade
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIndividual pricing on request—
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    IBM LinuxONESupermicro SuperBlade
    Small Businesses
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score7.6 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    IBM Power
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM LinuxONESupermicro SuperBlade
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM LinuxONESupermicro SuperBlade
    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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    Supermicro
    Supermicro may be well suited if what you will be deploying on the servers is supported, because if you don't, you may have no support at all. In our case, we have had some hardware problems where the support is not efficient compared to other experiences we had (HP, DELL). On the other hand, their servers price is quite good, so it's a win win if you are looking for better prices than other vendors.
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    Pros
    IBM
    • Valuable insights from the reports
    • Scalable
    • Easy to manage different data centers
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    Supermicro
    • Good IPMI management, detailed information
    • Their Redfish API is also a good tool to configure/retrieve information from the servers, good for scalability
    • Documentation Online for new updates is up to date (BIOS/FW)
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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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    Supermicro
    • Their support could be better, it is not the fastest we've got in touch with
    • We have seen strange behaviour on some of their servers, it's better to check if the OS you will be running is supported on their support matrix first
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    Support Rating
    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Supermicro
    My experience with the support was not that good, it always takes a lot of time to get somewhere when raising a support case. I gave it a 6 because I think they have room for improvement here, It could be good if they would act quicker and send in replacements for faulty hardware.
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    Alternatives Considered
    IBM
    LinuxONE has better scalability and price/performance metrics.
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    Supermicro
    The supermicro superblade servers are performing really well on our infrastructure, we are running a broad set of applications: voip, JAVA, linux, windows, hypervisors, etc. They are easy to install and configure and the price is a winning situation. On the other hand, The support is not so good, HP and DELL are stronger in this point. If you get any failures on your systems, they will replace them immediately, but supermicro will ask for a lot of information on the case before handing out replacement hardware, which makes it slow.
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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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    Supermicro
    • Their price has allowed us to save money when buying servers on bulk
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