Compare HPE SimpliVity vs. IBM PureSystems
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in Hyper-Converged (HCI) with 35 reviews while IBM PureSystems is ranked 12th in Converged Infrastructure. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.8, while IBM PureSystems is rated 0. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Freed up resources to do more application delivery type functionalities". On the other hand, HPE SimpliVity is most compared with Nutanix, VxRail and VMware vSAN, whereas IBM PureSystems is most compared with Vblock, Nutanix and HPE SimpliVity.
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It's much more expensive than rack servers. It was an issue, but when you compare it to the number of people who were administrative assistants before, it's on the positive ROI side. It's much cheaper. We currently have a perpetual license, which is kind of unlimited, so we don't have the normal licensing cost, yet. Our licensing costs are large, but it is combined between all of the Cisco products that we have. One of the challenges we have with HyperFlex is that they have a subscription fee for the operating system that runs on it, and if I remember correctly, it costs approximately $15,000 USD per month. It is relatively expensive, but it can easily return value by freeing up other resources. It's roughly $30,000 per Hyperflex license, so that would be about $60,000 a year. Our licensing is Hybrid. We have all of our applications for billing and outage management through this. They are not the cheapest on the market. But there's an old saying I like to quote: "If you know that you are getting what you pay for, it's fine if it's expensive." | We're paying $3,000-$4,000 a month. It's about $10,000 monthly. For three years, it is $60,000 for three nodes. It is quite pricey. The only thing that I think we are paying for is the VMware licenses, but we are enterprise, so it is not horrible. For the VMware licensing, it is approximately $10,000 a year. The time savings on the administration side of things is huge. We had somebody who was dedicated pretty much full-time to hardware, and now, they spend about a quarter of their time a year on hardware-related issues. Upfront costs seems high at first look, but after analyzing all the benefits of SimpliVity, we have come out ahead. It has helped to reduce our VMware licensing costs due to host consolidation. | Information Not Available |
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| SimpliVity, HPE HCI | PureSystems | |
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The Cisco HyperFlex HX Data Platform is a purpose-built, high-performance, scale-out file system with a wide array of enterprise-class data management services. The data platform’s innovations redefine distributed storage technology, giving you complete hyper-convergence with enterprise storage features:
| HPE SimpliVity provides the most complete hyperconverged solution, powering the world’s most efficient and resilient data centers and delivering up to 49% cost savings verses public cloud alternatives. A market and customer satisfaction leader, HPE SimpliVity dramatically simplifies IT by combining all infrastructure and advanced data services—including guaranteed data efficiency, built-in data protection, and VM-centric mobility—onto the customer’s choice of server. With HPE SimpliVity, expand your possibilities, not your data center. | PureSystems is a simple, smart, integrated IT infrastructure that frees your hands and opens your vision to new possibilities. |
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| BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Ready Pac Foods, Bryant University, Bellevue Group, KPIT Technologies, City Harvest | Red Bull Racing, Mandarin Oriental, Brigham Young University, UCLA, Merlin Entertainments, Sasa Cosmetics, Travelport, St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Princess House | ABT Online, Ascent Solutions Inc., Desert Research Institute (DRI), Reflexis, Esri, Avcilar Municipality, ValeCard, Computer Gross Italia S.p.A., DynaFront, Silvermoon Business Systems, Diasoft, BPTP, Temenos, Innovation Group, OneTree Solutions |
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Manufacturing Company18% Comms Service Provider12% Energy/Utilities Company12% Healthcare Company9% Software R&D Company36% Comms Service Provider12% Retailer6% Manufacturing Company6% | Financial Services Firm19% Healthcare Company10% University8% Retailer8% Software R&D Company21% Comms Service Provider16% Manufacturing Company8% Retailer7% | No Data Available |
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Small Business14% Midsize Enterprise11% Large Enterprise75% Small Business5% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise76% | Small Business25% Midsize Enterprise34% Large Enterprise40% Small Business25% Midsize Enterprise41% Large Enterprise33% | No Data Available |
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