A customer is very interested in taking advantage of cloud storage. In which order should the
customer implement these three key steps before deploying private cloud storage?
1. Automate storage management, including key operational processes such as backup, recovery,
metering, and billing
2. Establish an efficient storage environment by leveraging virtualization, deduplication,
compression, and tiering
3. Optimize the storage environment by adding self service and pay-per-use capability

A sales specialist closes a customer meeting with an opportunity to offer a DSS800 for a critical
SAP database application workload which runs on AIX and an EMC DMX system. The customer is
concerned with performance and asks for a performance analysis before the DS8800 proposal.
Which IBM tool should be used for planning the configuration?

A sales specialist is discussing FO SAN with a customer, who says that it is not the right solution
for the company’s needs. The customer has another solution in mind but has forgotten the exact
name of it, saying only that it has something to do with the LAN.
Which term is the customer most likely trying to articulate?

In a meeting with the new Operations Director, it is mentioned that the storage administrator has
been with the customer for as long as the current 010. The Operations Director states their team
will make a recommendation to the 010.
What should the sales specialist do next?

What is an advantage of IBM XIV System Storage over HP P10000 (3PAR) in a cloud
environment?

A POWER customer is looking for a tool to allow chargebacks for storage usage to various
departments within their company.
Which Tivoli Storage Productivity Center V4.2 module provides the functionality?

An IBM Business Partner has sold a storage subsystem to an end-user customer.
Who is responsible for scheduling and ensuring completion of the pre-sales or pre-installation
Technical and Delivery Assessment?

A customer is looking for a way to obtain the following storage management functions:
Single point of control for point-in4ime and remote volume replication services
Automated source-target matching
Practice Volume support for DR Planning
Volume Protection
Which IBM product should be recommended to this customer?

A customer tells the sales specialist that the cost for high performance storage is too expensive,
especially for data that is infrequently accessed.
Which technology allows them to assign types of data to different types of storage media in order
to reduce costs?

What is the role of Cloud Agile within IBM Smarter Storage?