We had previously utilized an alternate solution, but we switched to IBM licenses due to the need for a more resilient option. We have been satisfied with this change and have not considered going back to our previous solution.

It was not me but one of my customers who used a different solution before choosing IBM Power Systems.

No I didn’t use any other systems and migrate to IBM Power, migrations are mostly from Old Power system to new release.

I have previously used Intel and Oracle Solaris servers. The performance of IBM Power Systems is very good compared to Intel. IBM Power Systems provides more stability compared to Intel. You have firmware and malware issues with Intel, but IBM Power Systems has no security issues.

I also have experience with IBM iSeries.

We had Oracle SPARC.

Oracle SPARC is one of the solutions with which my company has some experience. My company switched from Oracle to IBM since we faced some problems with Oracle, from whom we had purchased eight SPARC T4-1 Servers. The problem arose when we had to create a new contact to support Oracle SPARC T4-1 Servers, and Oracle never cared to help us. Rather than resolving our issues, Oracle told my company that we could either migrate to the cloud or buy new servers from them.

We did not use a different solution. 

I didn't use any solution previously.

We were a large Solaris shop, so we had a lot of Sun and we outsourced to IGS. When IGS came in we started replacing a lot of the Sun with Power.

I have worked with Lenovo Server, HP Server, Dell Server, and SolarWinds earlier.

We found IBM to be more robust and able to meet our use cases.

I have not used any other solution in the past.

We started on a System/36 and grew into the AS/400 and we're still going with IBM i. It was always IBM because a lot of our code is written in-house. We're definitely planning on moving up to POWER 8 in the future.

I inherited it. We use it because it's been performing well. In our world, we essentially have POWER systems or Intel-based applications, and we generally find the compute and the processing power, and the ability to handle the load, is far better on the POWER systems.

We worked with IBM products, among others. 

We were using Power5.

I think T-Mobile has a big shop of Intel for Linux servers and they have Power for AIX servers.

We have always used Power.

We use HPE and Dell servers. We have found that IBM Power Systems require low maintenance compared to others. 

No. We are already invested in IBM, so we won't go towards anything else. We have lots of investment in IBM equipment. We are certified with IBM equipment as well as for hardware and software support by IBM.

We have been using IBM the last 15 years or so, and the performance that IBM servers are giving us is really good. Secondly, in our geographical area, it's the support. IBM has got good support. And the workloads we do have in our environment, IBM has got the equipment which can handle those workloads.

I have worked with many similar solutions.

We were using the POWER7 and moved up to the POWER8, because our contract was running out and we got a pretty good deal to move up to POWER8 hardware.

The DB2 for the database is our backbone of our system, we run off that for everything, so that's what brought us to POWER. Our web servers point to it, our mapping servers point to it for mapping solutions. Everything points to that and it's what we run off of.

Intel was the previous solution. The performance wasn't there. Linux on Power, I believe they're one of the first implementers on it. I think that was under POWER4, when no one knew anything about it. But it worked, worked beautifully. The hard part was I couldn't move that workload from one machine to another because it wasn't available. But it's a lot more robust now.

With Intel, it's a matter of complicated instruction set versus reduced. Using Power we get more scalability, more power, less need for resources, hardware, etc.

Some of our colleagues that attended the conferences, they were excited about the new features, that's the reason we brought the POWER8 into our system.

Our clients choose Power because they trust the platform. They trust IBM i. They are really comfortable with it. We even have new customers that had not previously used Power's servers or IBM i. They are moving to the platform because of trust, not just in Power itself, the hardware, but also their trust in IBM, the trust in their delivery, the trust in their support.

We've had Compaq, we've had Solaris, we have Dell for our workstations, but IBM for our "big iron." It does what it's supposed to do, better, faster, and more efficiently. We also chose IBM for the support and the products.