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IBM Power Servers vs. PowerEdge Rack Servers

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricIBM Power Servers

by IBM

PowerEdge Rack Servers

by Dell Technologies

Overall rating4.54.7
Review count9815
Ease of use9.09.3
Ease of setup8.59.3
Quality of support9.29.3
Meets requirements9.49.7
NPS68.08510680
Small Business5.8%0.0%
Mid-Market59.6%0.0%
Enterprise34.6%100.0%
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IBM Power Servers

IBM Power is a family of high-performance servers built to meet today's and tomorrow's challenges. Highly scalable and reliable to support even the most demanding workloads, Power servers are designed to help you respond faster to business and market changes. Add autonomous IT, advanced virtualization capabilities, and enterprise-grade security, and you have a platform that can meet all your business needs on-prem and in the cloud.

Pros

    PowerEdge Rack Servers

    Drive demanding workloads including VDI, AI/machine learning and private cloud with workhorse servers that deliver the optimum balance of storage, I/O, application acceleration and configuration flexibility. Highly flexible configurations with up to 16 x 2.5-or 8 x 3.5- drives, 8 PCIe slots, 24 DIMMS (including 12 NVDIMM-Ns) 50% more accelerator card support with up to 3 x 300W or 6 x 150W cards Industry-leading energy efficiency with correct air flow delivered to each PCIe slot via multi-vector cooling Internal storage subsystem optimized for M.2 boot

    Pros