Compare Cisco UCS B-Series vs. Hitachi BladeSymphony

Cisco UCS B-Series is ranked 3rd in Blade Servers with 2 reviews while Hitachi BladeSymphony which is ranked 15th in Blade Servers. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Hitachi BladeSymphony is rated 0. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS B-Series writes "The separation of the hardware from the components' software definition is key for us". On the other hand, Cisco UCS B-Series is most compared with HPE Synergy, HPE BladeSystem and Super Micro SuperBlade, whereas Hitachi BladeSymphony is most compared with .

Cisco UCS B-Series

Hitachi BladeSymphony

Cisco UCS B-Series

Read 2 Cisco UCS B-Series reviews.

8,680 views|2,511 comparisons

Hitachi BladeSymphony

563 views|103 comparisons

Most Helpful Review

Neeraj Mehra

Manager of Solutions and Support at Esconet Technologies Pvt Ltd

I can connect it to multiple chassis and rack servers using a unified platform, then manage them on a single console

The overall consolidation of hardware is helping us.

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3rd out of 25 in Blade Servers Views 8,680 Comparisons 2,511 Reviews 2 Average Words per Review 411 Avg. Rating 8.5	15th out of 25 in Blade Servers Views 563 Comparisons 103 Reviews 0 Average Words per Review 0 Avg. Rating N/A
Top Comparisons
HPE Synergy vs. Cisco UCS B-Series Compared 55% of the time. HPE BladeSystem vs. Cisco UCS B-Series Compared 17% of the time. Super Micro SuperBlade vs. Cisco UCS B-Series Compared 12% of the time. See more Cisco UCS B-Series competitors » + Add more products to compare	See more Hitachi BladeSymphony competitors » + Add more products to compare
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.
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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

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