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  • "The pricing for Cisco is less than for the HP Proliant series."
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    What do you like most about Cisco UCS B-Series?
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easily scalable.
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    Top Answer:It is not a yearly subscription but a yearly support renewal that you need to do for Cisco UCS B-Series.
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    What needs improvement with Cisco UCS B-Series?
    Top Answer:There are some shortcomings in the product when you look at it from the perspective of the area involving multiple configurations, making it an aspect where improvements are required. The server… more »
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    out of 22 in Blade Servers
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    1,517
    Reviews
    19
    Average Words per Review
    422
    Rating
    8.6
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    Also Known As
    UCS B-Series, Unified Computing System B-Series
    BladeSymphony
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    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.

    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
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    Financial Services Firm23%
    Manufacturing Company17%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Computer Software Company13%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company21%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government10%
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    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 64 reviews while Hitachi BladeSymphony [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Blade Servers. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Hitachi BladeSymphony [EOL] is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS B-Series writes "Robust hardware and efficient management of hardware, creating group policies, such as scrub policies and maintenance policies". On the other hand, Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, Dell PowerEdge M, HPE BladeSystem, Super Micro SuperBlade and Pure Storage FlashBlade, whereas Hitachi BladeSymphony [EOL] is most compared with .

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