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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Power

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe IBM Power product line is a family of servers.N/A

    Oracle SPARC Servers

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AOracle offers their SPARC line of rack servers designed, as described by the vendor, as optimal for scale-out and Cloud infrastructure.N/A
    Pricing
    IBM PowerOracle SPARC Servers
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM PowerOracle SPARC Servers
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IBM PowerOracle SPARC Servers
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Power
    IBM Power servers are reliable and provide all the utility and performance required.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Power
    IBM Power servers are the best server available in the market mainly due to the secure environment they provide, easy deployment with no downtime, AI support, powerful processor for extended workloads and high performance with fewer servers. These all features make it an easy …
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Power
    In order to manage mission-critical workloads, IBM Power Server requires strong hardware. High compute workloads work nicely with p9 and VCS. This platform runs many mission-critical clusters in high-end configurations. Issues and issues are few and steady.
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    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    165 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    154 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    171 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    147 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    160 Answers
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    Best Alternatives
    IBM PowerOracle SPARC Servers
    Small Businesses
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Dell PowerEdge
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    IBM Z
    Score9.4 out of 10
    IBM Power
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM PowerOracle SPARC Servers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (208 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.1
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM PowerOracle SPARC Servers
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Oracle
    Excellent to consolidate workload using the LDom Virtualization (which is included free of charge). Good integration into Oracle Support with Automated Service Requests (ASR). Easy to migrate workloads from older servers to newer generations, such as SPARC S7 or T8. After migrating workloads from older SPARC T4 to S7, applications are approximately 2x faster.
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    Pros
    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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    Oracle
    • encryption
    • masking
    • redaction
    • subsetting
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    Cons
    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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    Oracle
    • We didn't have any problems whatsoever with integration
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    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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    Oracle
    Extreme long lifetime (10+ years). High performance. SPARC S7 CPU has 4.2GhZ and SPARC T8 has 5GhZ. Virtualization is included for free. Very easy to use because it runs Oracle Solaris. The SPARC Servers scale very well. Oracle SPARC Servers have positively impacted our organization by improving our budget, as we can use the system for many years without having to purchase new systems.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Oracle
    No unplanned downtime over many years.
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    Performance
    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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    Oracle
    Very high CPU speed with 4-5 GhZ
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    Support Rating
    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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    Oracle
    Support requests are opened automatically.
    Component replacements are very fast.
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Oracle
    In terms of the Power ecosystem, the use cases of IBM Power System S914 is very limited. Resources required for properly working PowerVM and VIOS are very difficult. In Oracle SPARC Servers setup, it is pretty easy with very limited steps to be performed. This helped our Return of Investment become positive very quickly.
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    Scalability
    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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    Oracle
    The servers scale very well with lots of CPU cores.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Oracle
    • Does Not Support Domain Migration
    • Migration Fails When the Target Machine Has Insufficient Free LDCs
    • Limit the Maximum Number of Virtual Functions That Can Be Assigned to a Domain
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    ScreenShots

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