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a real secure platform and easy to manage
September 08, 2023

a real secure platform and easy to manage

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller

Modules Used

  • Power S1022

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Power servers

  • no virus
  • 99,995% operational
  • very lost cost of operation
  • robust
  • grouping licences at the same place not ESS and passport advantage
  • having Tivoli backup working with Power I

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

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Power servers's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Power servers live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Power servers go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Power servers again?

Yes

  • Positive impact is that we need very limited staff to operate the server
  • Negative impact is that we have difficulties to find people that have knowledge on Power server.
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
Microsoft Exchange, Navisite Productivity and Collaboration (Microsoft Office 365 and MDM)
I saw customer having virus on all their server at the same time except for their Power server that never failed down. Integrated database on the Power server is very strong and even though the Power server accidentally shut down, the database did not get corrupted and rebuilt correctly.

Using IBM Power servers

10 - Private cloud for our customer
4 - technical people to upgrade and intall. Support people to supervise Power infra
  • Low cost operation
  • easy to maintain
  • very strong architecture
  • very easy to have multiple partition and maintain them
  • connected to cloud environment
solid platform, easy to maintain, easy to operate

Evaluating IBM Power servers and Competitors

  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
We support customer application on our IBM Power cloud infra at cheap operation.
I will not change my decision.

IBM Power servers Support

never have to complain about support except for licence key's
ProsCons
Quick Resolution
Good followup
Knowledgeable team
Problems get solved
Kept well informed
Support understands my problem
Support cares about my success
Quick Initial Response
None
yes, since the application are critical, we need 7/24/4
we had a response time issue with storage attached to Power server and the IBM team work together to fix it