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2,075 views|1,724 comparisons
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IBM System X

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An excellent choice for enterprise and medium-sized businesses due to its high reliability, robust performance, scalability, and exceptional support
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  • "Depending on how big the deployment is customers usually see an ROI around seven months after deployment."
  • "The product has medium pricing. We have purchased a yearly support license for it."
  • "I rate the pricing an eight on a scale from one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
  • "For enterprise and large-scale companies, it's actually quite reasonable and not considered very expensive."
  • "There is no need to pay anything towards the licensing costs of the solution."
  • "My company's clients make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. The product is neither expensive nor cheap."

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    What do you like most about Dell PowerEdge T?
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of the solution is its high storage capacity, making it a good product.
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    What needs improvement with Dell PowerEdge T?
    Top Answer:It is not easy to move around tower servers, especially since it is heavy to load the server somewhere. The heaviness of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required.
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    Top Answer:Dell PowerEdge T is a product that consists of tower servers, which my organization made available for five of our clients who were not looking for rack servers.
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    Overview
    Dell EMC PowerEdge tower servers are equipped with a wide range of performance-enhancing features including redundant and hot-swappable components, system health monitoring and advanced virtualization capabilities.
    The IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4 is a half-depth, dual-socket server designed for data centers that require high performance, yet are constrained on floor space, power, and cooling infrastructure. The dx360 M4 is equipped with the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 Series processors and is ideal for clients that need a dense, flexible solution with low total cost of ownership.
    Sample Customers
    Parkdale Secondary College, UnitedStack, ICM Netsystems, Newport City Homes, Medien-Service Untermain (MSU), The Watershed Addiction Treatment Programs, Exasol, Dayco, PRIME aerostructures GmbH, Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC)
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    Government8%
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    Small Business67%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise22%
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    Small Business36%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    Dell PowerEdge T is ranked 2nd in Tower Servers with 8 reviews while IBM System X is ranked 4th in Tower Servers. Dell PowerEdge T is rated 8.2, while IBM System X is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Dell PowerEdge T writes "A competitively-priced solution that offers stability and scalability". On the other hand, Dell PowerEdge T is most compared with HPE Proliant ML, whereas IBM System X is most compared with Lenovo ThinkSystem Tower Servers.

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