Cisco UCS B-Series vs. Hitachi BladeSymphony

Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 9 reviews vs Hitachi BladeSymphony which is ranked 12th in Blade Servers. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS B-Series writes "The UCS Manager uses a single pane of glass to monitor, deploy and provision servers". Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade and HPE Synergy. Hitachi BladeSymphony is most compared with HPE Superdome X, HPE BladeSystem and Cisco UCS B-Series.

Cisco UCS B-Series

Hitachi BladeSymphony

18780

Cisco UCS B-Series

Based on 9 reviews.

19424

Hitachi BladeSymphony

Most Helpful Review

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Technical Solutions Architect at a tech services company

It changed our mindset to abstract the server, making it a stateless object for workloads.

Previously, we focused on CPUs and servers, relying on the Intel cadence for change. With Cisco UCS, we became network-centric and changed our... Read more »

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Ranking
RANKING	3rd out of 24 In Blade Servers Views 6,589 Comparisons 2,032 Reviews 9 Followers 295 Avg. Rating 8.7	12th out of 24 In Blade Servers Views 522 Comparisons 272 Reviews 0 Followers 119 Avg. Rating N/A
Top Comparisons
Top Comparisons	HPE BladeSystem vs. Cisco UCS B-Series Compared 34% of the time. Super Micro SuperBlade vs. Cisco UCS B-Series Compared 23% of the time. HPE Synergy vs. Cisco UCS B-Series Compared 14% of the time. See more Cisco UCS B-Series competitors »	HPE Superdome X vs. Hitachi BladeSymphony Compared 38% of the time. HPE BladeSystem vs. Hitachi BladeSymphony Compared 27% of the time. Cisco UCS B-Series vs. Hitachi BladeSymphony Compared 17% of the time. See more Hitachi BladeSymphony competitors »

Also Known As
Also Known As	UCS B-Series, Unified Computing System B-Series	BladeSymphony
Website/Video
Website/Video	Cisco	Hitachi
Overview
Overview	Based on Intel Xeon processor E7 and E5 product families, Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers work with virtualized and non-virtualized applications to increase: Performance, Energy efficiency, Flexibility and Administrator productivity.	BladeSymphony blade servers inherit its core design from Hitachi's line of highly reliable mainframe platforms bound together by a robust management software solution. BladeSymphony management solutions simplify the administration and management of BladeSymphony servers in enterprise data centers. BladeSymphony 1000 blade systems also supports Multi-Blade Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) interconnect technology for scalable performance. Transaction recovery is supported with our N+M standby feature improving system reliability and availability. High performance and high availability features allow BladeSymphony to be utilized in small departmental office environments to large back-end enterprise data centers.
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Sample Customers
Sample Customers	Aegean Motorway, Anilana Hotels and Resorts, Anonymous Banking Group, Artoni Transporti, Bellevue, BH Telecom, Bowling Green State University, Children's Hospital Colorado, City of Biel, Dimension Data, Dualtec Cloud Builders, Hertz, Houston Methodist, Kuwait Petroleum Italia, Lufthansa Systems GmbH & Co.KG, Outscale, Sony Corporation, Talbots	BMW, LBBW Asset Management, Mutual and Federal, National Computing and Information Agency, Perth Radiological Clinic, Shaanxi Telecom, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE), Swisscom IT Services, Turkcell, University HealthSystem Consortium, VPS - Norwegian Central Securities, W&W Informatik GmbH
Top Industries
Top Industries	REVIEWERS Financial Services Firm 38% Construction Company 13% Comms Service Provider 13% University 13% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Financial Services Firm 13% Comms Service Provider 13% Manufacturing Company 10% Software R&D Company 9%	No Data Available
Company Size
Company Size	REVIEWERS Small Business 30% Midsize Enterprise 17% Large Enterprise 52% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business 20% Midsize Enterprise 30% Large Enterprise 51%	No Data Available

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