I would say I’m partial to the big brands, however I think I’m coming around.
The brand’s I use are HPE for network switching and Fortinet for security etc
Shortly after I said that our vendor sent us a server that they knew had hardware issues and we had to fight them for a refund… So I think we’re moving to Dell now.
Out of this list dell for sure. Best management tools and they don’t hide update packages behind a support paywall. Also dell open manage is really useful.
What about outside of this list?
The agency that I worked for prior to my current agency upgraded to all Dell VXrail nodes. Those things are pretty powerful! I was very impressed. We migrated from HPE servers to the VXrail.
I wish we were more standard on servers, it seems like we have brands all over the place (especially after Covid).
I guess I never ended up updating this… We started using a vendor that sells all of the big brands so it kind of works out.