Was just reading the 'Whitelists' thread over in General Hardware and someone mentioned it was unfair to base it on such a small sample, and I agree so figured I would start a slightly different thread over here specific to business related brands and to generate a mini database of opinions.
So lets make it simple, which brand people use at work, what they use that brand for and their personal opinions? For Example at my workplace -
Backoffice/Datacentre - IBM xSeries and pSeries - We are a Lotus shop so sticking with IBM was a pretty easy decision, plus they give us pretty nice pricing.
Branch Office Servers - Dell T310's and Dell 1900's - For some reason the previous IT management team felt it better to move away from IBM for the branch office stuff (anywhere below 30-50 users) but I am pretty sure we are going back to IBM for the next round of upgrades which will be the 2900's sometime this year.
Switches - Cisco and Juniper - I have very little experience of these in production so have no real opinion of how they are day to day, other than the network team seem happy to keep on buying them.
Desktops - Dell Optiplex, Latitudes and Precisions - No real experience supporting them but I use a Precision M4400 at my desk and its fine, would prefer a T420 but...
So lets make it simple, which brand people use at work, what they use that brand for and their personal opinions? For Example at my workplace -
Backoffice/Datacentre - IBM xSeries and pSeries - We are a Lotus shop so sticking with IBM was a pretty easy decision, plus they give us pretty nice pricing.
Branch Office Servers - Dell T310's and Dell 1900's - For some reason the previous IT management team felt it better to move away from IBM for the branch office stuff (anywhere below 30-50 users) but I am pretty sure we are going back to IBM for the next round of upgrades which will be the 2900's sometime this year.
Switches - Cisco and Juniper - I have very little experience of these in production so have no real opinion of how they are day to day, other than the network team seem happy to keep on buying them.
Desktops - Dell Optiplex, Latitudes and Precisions - No real experience supporting them but I use a Precision M4400 at my desk and its fine, would prefer a T420 but...