A small law firm that does not currently have any virtualization technologies implemented has recently merged with another firm of approximately the same size.
They are planning to consolidate into a single location. They have decided to virtualize their servers, and they would like to consolidate storage. The current storage utilization is below 60%.
The budget will not allow them to purchase an array that matches the capacity of the current storage. However, they cannot justify the application disruption associated with growing storage over time to meet forecasted capacity requirements.
Which array feature would meet their requirements?

A customer is determining whether to divest resources into a third-party cloud solution. They are concerned about what will happen should they decide to migrate their data back in-house.
Which contractual agreement defines this scenario?

Why is it beneficial to define tier criteria during the data center inventory and data gathering process?

From an IT business layer perspective, what do you gain by consolidating at the application layer?

Why is it important to identify business objectives prior to planning and designing a virtual infrastructure?

A customer is determining whether the risk involved in migrating in-house data to a third-party cloud provider is acceptable.
Which step should be performed after the initial evaluation of the asset?

Your customer is primarily concerned with asset discovery and a reconciled view of all infrastructure components and the dependencies between them.
Which type of architecture would you recommend?

What can the consumer manage and control when subscribing to cloud Software as a Service (SaaS)?

Which two governing bodies focus on developing cloud standards?

A company is planning an image-based backup solution for their virtual server environment, and would like to continue to use their existing backup software.
Which software feature is critical to reducing the amount of data that is backed up?