We performed a comparison between IBM Power Systems and Oracle SPARC Servers based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Rack Servers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The availability of a solution depends on the requirement of the customer. The most valuable feature is the virtualization. You can have this one system or you can use it for many. They were using almost 120 servers within that specific service."
"We've been using it for a long time, and it's stable."
"The SMT that they've improved has really helped open up boundaries for other applications that can use it."
"The best features of the solution are its robustness and service level."
"Active Memory Expansion allows you to compress your memory on the run time to allow you to have less physical memory available, but provision more memory to your partitions, as everything will be compressed on the fly."
"Power runs our resilient data systems, our high-end databases, stuff that can't go down."
"The performance and stability are great."
"The solution does not require any maintenance."
"The operating system is rock solid and the best I have ever used."
"The performance is the best feature."
"The processor is very helpful and the licensing is very flexible."
"Our customers are happy with many features in Oracle SPARC Servers, like the automatic ASR feature."
"The Oracle server is very powerful. They are more powerful and durable compared to Intel hardware. Which has been a benefit to our organization."
"I have found the LDAP facilities most valuable. In addition, I like the CPU."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that Oracle Database functions very well with Oracle SPARC Servers."
"In my country, there are power supply interruptions. IBM could find ways to make the product stable through these interruptions."
"If you take advantage of some of these real advanced features, for oversubscribing as an example, it's not supported on Linux on Power. So that stops us, in particular, from going that way."
"I would like to see IBM Power Systems integrate with all cloud types."
"The price has room for improvement."
"There are improvements that can be made on the technical side."
"Its pricing could be better."
"We have a problem with the storage software. The media to restore data is also not found."
"I know lab services does a lot of work but systems, if they could include some kind of lab services and bundling of services to get you to the greatest and latest feature at the already included cost"
"They have declared the end of life of the hardware."
"Oracle doesn't have a good roadmap for the solution because they are moving to the x86 platform."
"Like IBM, Oracle SPARC Servers should be able to run other open operating systems like Linux."
"They need some sort of modeling because IBM has different types of models."
"I would like to see a reduced price point."
"Oracle SPARC Servers should be fine-tuned well enough to work with the other servers and software products in the market, as it is an area where Oracle SPARC Servers lack."
"The solution could improve by giving a clear roadmap about the future. I'm not seeing a lot of improvements on the OS side of the software. They need to work more on the operating system."
IBM Power Systems is ranked 4th in Rack Servers with 69 reviews while Oracle SPARC Servers is ranked 7th in Rack Servers with 7 reviews. IBM Power Systems is rated 8.8, while Oracle SPARC Servers is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of IBM Power Systems writes "A solution with minimal downtime and quick recovery time in the event of a sudden or unexpected crash". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Oracle SPARC Servers writes "A rock-solid OS and rich virtualization features for hosting many VMs on one box". IBM Power Systems is most compared with Intel Server System, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, HPE ProLiant DL Servers, Lenovo ThinkSystem Rack Servers and HPE Apollo, whereas Oracle SPARC Servers is most compared with Intel Server System, Dell PowerEdge Rack Servers, HPE ProLiant DL Servers, HPE Apollo and Dell PowerEdge FX. See our IBM Power Systems vs. Oracle SPARC Servers report.
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