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  • "It makes much more sense for individual licenses for distributed environments"
  • "Make sure you work with a vendor partner than can get you a substantial discount off of list pricing."
  • "The type of service level purchase will determine the level of support response that you receive from Cisco."
  • "The price of this solution is a little bit higher, but given that this system is Cisco, it feels more secure and dependable."
  • "Cisco products are at the high end in terms of cost, but everything is included with the licensing fees."
  • "The pricing for Cisco is less than for the HP Proliant series."
  • "The pricing for Cisco products is always high."
  • "Pricing with Cisco is very high."

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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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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cisco UCS B-Series?
    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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    Also Known As
    UCS B-Series, Unified Computing System B-Series
    Sun 6048
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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.

    Oracle's Sun Blade 6048 Chassis helps you overcome the challenges causing pressure to your superscale HPC project:

    • The move to multicore processors is driving increasingly larger node sizes.
    • The ceiling of power and cooling resources.
    • The growing complexity of management.
    • The ongoing needs for expansion, repairs, and upgrades.

    As the foundation of the Sun Blade 6048 modular system, this chassis is designed to support the latest I/O technologies and the most advanced rack-level cooling solutions. 

    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
    Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Hªttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann GmbH, Mutlinet Pakistan
    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 Company9%
    Government9%
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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 Oracle Sun 6048 is ranked 16th in Blade Servers. Cisco UCS B-Series is rated 8.6, while Oracle Sun 6048 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 Oracle Sun 6048 is most compared with .

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