Technological Infrastructure Manager at Mercado Argentino de Valores S.A.
Real User
Top 10
2024-05-24T13:15:00Z
May 24, 2024
With the tool, I can make a return in less than two years compared with Dell EMC or Hewlett Packard's storage, so it is available at a good price. We mounted all the virtualization with less than 1,50,000 USD. We are negotiating to get the tool for 800,000,000 Argentine Pesos. The tool is expensive, but it is worth the money. There are no concerns about the investment in empowering the business. There is a need to negotiate a lot. The tool helps the lives of the infrastructure or people. People don't understand the whole picture between security, infrastructure, and communication. If someone sees the cost to be high, they wonder why they need to buy the tool when everything is working fine.
The basic functionalities of the product are provided within the normal license, but users can opt for some optional features from IBM's licensing model.
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With the Turkish currency, it's hard to nail down the exact pricing. It fluctuates and the costs are based on the US dollar. Right now, it's fluctuating so much, you can't really do a comparison using the Turkish lira. That said, I would estimate that the cost is a bit lower compared to other models.
NAS Storage Tech Leader at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-09-27T04:09:55Z
Sep 27, 2020
Its price is fair. IBM is quite fair in price when you compare it with others. We also use Hitachi internally, and Hitachi is always a little bit more expensive. NetApp is also a bit more expensive. So, IBM has good positioning in terms of price.
DS5000 storage systems are equally adept at supporting transactional applications such as databases and online transaction processing (OLTP), throughput-intensive applications such as high-performance computing (HPC) and rich media, and concurrent workloads for consolidation and virtualization. DS5000 series storage systems can support service level agreements (SLAs) for the most common operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux and Apple Macintosh. With drive-level...
The price fits well with the proposal of this equipment. Although IBM is not cheap, the cost fits well with the propose.
With the tool, I can make a return in less than two years compared with Dell EMC or Hewlett Packard's storage, so it is available at a good price. We mounted all the virtualization with less than 1,50,000 USD. We are negotiating to get the tool for 800,000,000 Argentine Pesos. The tool is expensive, but it is worth the money. There are no concerns about the investment in empowering the business. There is a need to negotiate a lot. The tool helps the lives of the infrastructure or people. People don't understand the whole picture between security, infrastructure, and communication. If someone sees the cost to be high, they wonder why they need to buy the tool when everything is working fine.
The tool has built-in licenses.
The product has reasonable pricing.
The basic functionalities of the product are provided within the normal license, but users can opt for some optional features from IBM's licensing model.
It's an expensive solution.
Compared to other vendors, I think it's expensive.
The license is affordable.
It is a competitively priced solution. The cost can vary depending on whether it is purchased from the hardware or the software departments.
This product is priced well. The ratio between cost and productivity is very high and we're happy with it.
The pricing is very costly. It's roughly $6,000-$7,000. The solution is not cheap.
With the Turkish currency, it's hard to nail down the exact pricing. It fluctuates and the costs are based on the US dollar. Right now, it's fluctuating so much, you can't really do a comparison using the Turkish lira. That said, I would estimate that the cost is a bit lower compared to other models.
Its price is fair. IBM is quite fair in price when you compare it with others. We also use Hitachi internally, and Hitachi is always a little bit more expensive. NetApp is also a bit more expensive. So, IBM has good positioning in terms of price.