HPE Apollo Other Solutions Considered

it_user680184 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director of Research at PSC

We always look at all vendors before reaching a conclusion. I don't want to name them here, but we're always aware of what's in the market. We evaluate these for each procurement. We pick the solution that's best. The competitive edge for HPE involves several things. These are not in any specific order, as they are hard to rank.

  • HPE's strategic position in the marketplace. Being a close partner with Intel, we trust them when there's a new CPU. We can get it in an HPE server very early on.
  • When something new comes out, like Omni-Path, it was brand new then. We trusted that HPE would be able to deliver that in a validated product very, very early.
  • We are always pushing the time envelope. Their strategic alliance with other strong partners, gave us trust that we would be able to deliver on time, and we were. That's unusual in this field.
  • They uniquely had very large memory servers so the Superdomes, and the bandwidth in those servers, was extremely good compared to anything else on the market. We wanted that, especially, for large scale genomics. Putting that in the solution was a big plus. I'd say these items together were the strongest determining factors, from a technical perspective.
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it_user332961 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of IT Infrastructure at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We spent a long time looking, actually, at doing the Scality ring on just commodity hardware from someone like Supermicro, and we found out that, in terms of reliability, supportability, ease of management, that having all our servers under the same contract through HPE, made the decision to use Apollo was apparently clear. Even though it was marginally a little bit more expensive up front, the total cost of ownership of having to manage those many servers was lower. This made the decision really easy.

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it_user568107 - PeerSpot reviewer
Development Manager at Thomson Reuters

We looked at four or five different vendors. Some of them were talked about very expensive solutions. The HPE solution cost about one-third less. Taking into consideration the cost, HPE gave us the ability to actually do what we wanted to do. Also, the relationship and being able to talk to them was important in our decision. Getting access to their technical people is very important to us. We've been an HP user for many years.

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SG
Senior Account Manager

We do look to Super Micro whenever price is king. But if we are looking for reliability, then HPE is the way to go.

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it_user364197 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at CSC Finland

We looked at Dell and Super Micro. They are both on the market in Finland.

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