At this time, we also have other solutions available to us, but our experience is that the SuperCluster solution is superior.

Previous solution was M5000-based and the switch was from a consolidation/hardware refresh point of view.

The old system was getting old. We were on Solaris 10, not even Solaris 11, so it was just a matter of needing a replacement of the infrastructure.

When selecting a vendor, important criteria include their having a significant marketplace share. You don't want some minor player. You want somebody who can provide really good technical support 24/7, has excellent response time, and the ability to provide replacement hardware quickly, with four-hour response times. So you're usually limited to the big spenders, like Oracle and IBM and HPE. Those are the main considerations: the support, technical expertise, and the ability to actually deliver on what they're selling.

The client was on traditional storage/server technologies; they switched because they wanted to have a complete Oracle consolidated solution.

Previously we used X-Beta. Oracle created a specific product database and not the applications. As Oracle SuperCluster, we can run applications and databases in a single infrastructure.

We previously used IBM. We decided to switch because of our implementers.