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53 IBM AIX Reviews
4.4 out of 5
53 IBM AIX Reviews
4.4 out of 5

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Mahesh D.
MD
System Administrator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A rock-solid stability and reliability product"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

AIX delivers these capabilities and more, ensuring the performance, reliability, and security your mission-critical data demands Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Integrating with your current tech stack could have been better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RS
Devops Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"AIX for Banking applications"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

Reliability and Stability: IBM AIX is known for its rock-solid stability and reliability, making it a preferred choice for mission-critical applications

AIX delivers excellent performance, particularly in handling large-scale data transfers and network integration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

The cost of IBM AIX can be quite high compared to other operating systems

AIX is tightly bound to IBM hardware, which limits its flexibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JEROME J.
JJ
IT Director
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Rock Solid OS"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

AIX is rock solid, has a ton of resources and the internal help screens are great. What I like best about this OS & hardware is the reliabilty as we've had virually no downtime. Implementation is fairly simple and of course along with great customer support makes this platform a must within our environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

I really don't have any dislikes about IBM AIX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Padmakar B.
PB
Delivery Head - IT Applications
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"IBM AIX, the good and bad"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

The inherent capabilities of IBM AIX when the hardware used is from IBM. The performance it delivers when it is used as an OS for the database server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Binding to IBM hardware as it cannot be used on other hardware. OS independence will help the growth of AIX usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance
UI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Greaix combined with websphere great combination!"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

I have used AIX with WebSphere for over 20 years. Products work great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Can be challenging to stay current outside of IBM supported JDK Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RM
IT Security Operations Head
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"IBM AIX Revikew"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

IBM AIX is a powerful OS. We use this for Oracle databases, for security concern/protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Sometimes there are configuration syntax which is too complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anurag R.
AR
Technical Support Manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Anurag - AIX Review"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

As i am an AIX user since 2012, a most favourite feature of AIXfor me most of the things can be done online without downtime. Like UPGRADE & Migration of OS Level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Like Linux bit late in terms of various open-source tools to make it interactive and stands with other flavor of Linux. For example devops tools coming in picture but so late. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kasim M.
KM
FileNet Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best OS for industrial and corporate use in production and non production environment."
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

I have been using AIX since last 12 years in our production and non production environment. Its highly secure, scalable and easy to use plateform. We have 10+ AIX VM images and used with combination of FileNet and Websphare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

Some unix commands don't work easily.

Nno GUI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting
CC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Old technology yet stable, reliable, and highly available"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

+ Stable and reliable. Practically no need restart or downtime unless you do major patch or upgrade

+ Soft partitioning can run different version (they call it LPAR)

+ Secure, as UNIX is not a community like Linux Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

- used for core system in Banking, Telco that have very high throughput. Other than that, what else?

- mostly running also IBM DB2. But other databases slowly abandon this OS

- even IBM now provides Red Hat that can run on top of Power/ i-series server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amit R.
AR
Assistant System Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"IBM AIX Product Review"
What do you like best about IBM AIX?

We mainly use this for data storage purpose and I like this thing the most in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM AIX?

It should have a good graphical user interface by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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