Item: IBM Power
Rating: 10
Author: LUCKY PHALA

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Power

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using this system in a production environment to maintain the heavy workload because of its high performance. This system helped our company to grow in terms of responsiveness to our databases. It is a system that enabled us to increase our memory with ease especially with our clientele growing rapidly, databases/data are easily manipulated.

Pros and Cons

Pros

stable
relatively cheaper
migration

Cons

online community presence
needs intensive training
GPU compatibility

Most Important Features

virtualization
multiple OS support
storage capacity

Return on Investment

quick response on the system
easy data migration
regular security updates

Key Insights

Do you think IBM Power delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Power's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Power live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Power go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Power again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Docker, Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), HCL Leap (formerly IBM Forms Experience Builder)

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Power is well suited for Larger organizations where the are complex use cases to solve and where they are medium to big databases to manage. It is best to consider using IBM Power if you want to minimize your databases downtime which will be achieved due to its big memory and processor. It is also good in environments where virtualization is of high importance.

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