IBM Power Systems with AIX provided good compute resources
December 04, 2020
IBM Power Systems with AIX provided good compute resources
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Power System AC922
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Power
IBM Power Systems was used to handle our data warehouse ETL computing systems. Our extract transform and load systems used the compute available in IBM Power to process our data into the warehouse. Several other functions exist too, like our mainframe systems run on Power, and much of our transactional data is processed on IBM Power Systems.
- Fast.
- Well integrated.
- Reliable.
- Difficult to scale.
- Costly.
- Difficult to administer.
- Handled increasing data loads very well, so we got good return on the usage.
- Dependence upon Power tied us too directly to IBM, so we have tried to move off them to Linux and VM based servers, easier to scale, less costly.
- Pay for compute that your not using, so it's costly.
I did not select IBM Power Systems. It was decided prior to my employment; however, we did change our systems from AIX Power to VMs. This allowed for cheaper and easier scaling of our systems to handle the increased workloads for our business. Our IT management felt it was a better route.