HPE BladeSystem Competitors and Alternatives

What do you think of HPE Superdome X?

Valuable Features We've got a few of them, because we needed some really large machines. So far, they've been working pretty good. • Room for Improvement What would make it better from my point of view is if HPE spent more time on testing with the actual built-in Red Hat Linux drivers, as opposed to always trying to say, "Use our driver." • Stability Issues The stability is pretty good. • Scalability Issues It's scaling where we need to go. The issues we have are more the application not scaling; application design issues, not hardware issues. The hardware will go further than our application will. • Customer Service and Technical Support The technical support sucks, would be understating it. Because the first line and the second line support tend to give out...

What do you think of Cisco UCS B-Series?

Primary Use Case Mostly VMs, for hosting virtual infrastructure. It represents 99 percent of our computing workforce. • Improvements to My Organization The versatility of the solution is the most helpful to us. • Valuable Features The way the hardware is separated from the software definition of the components. • Room for Improvement Better UI. Cisco makes a great product but doesn't know how to make a UI. • Use of Solution More than five years. • Stability Issues Very stable and very reliable. • Scalability Issues It is a blade system so it's fairly scalable. • Customer Service and Technical Support I've used technical support and it's above average. • Previous Solutions We had a bad experience with IBM servers, which is why we decided to change...