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PowerEdge Rack Servers vs. Cisco Blade Servers

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

MetricPowerEdge Rack Servers

by Dell Technologies

Cisco Blade Servers

by Cisco

Overall rating4.74.4
Review count1514
Ease of use9.38.6
Ease of setup9.37.3
Quality of support9.38.9
Meets requirements9.79.5
NPS8057.142857
Small Business0.0%12.5%
Mid-Market0.0%75.0%
Enterprise100.0%12.5%
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Total LLM citations67218

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

    Cisco Blade Servers

    Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers are high-performance, modular servers designed to optimize data center operations by integrating computing, networking, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system. These servers are engineered to deliver exceptional performance and scalability, making them suitable for a wide range of applications, from virtualized environments to mission-critical enterprise workloads.

    Pros