A financial services customer has recently been asked to provide electronic evidence in a trial involving one of their former employees. This has created a new focus around Information Retention solutions. The customer has several data types and would need to store several hundred terabytes (TB). What IBM solution meets this customer’s needs?

The customer currently has 20 servers with 1 TB of internal capacity on each server. The servers communicate over 10/100/1000 Ethernet. The customer would like to move to a shared storage subsystem with Fibre Channel hard drives. Budget is a key issue for them. Which option would allow for the lowest cost to implement?

A customer is performing a cost justification of advanced software functions for several disk subsystem vendors. Which of the following software features of the Storwize V7000 are chargeable?

One major advantage the IBM Storwize V7000 has over EMC’s VNX series is:

A customer is currently using a Windows file server to share NFS storage (9 TB) to their application server, and a small SAN to supply block I/O to their database servers (5 TB). As their current hardware is aging they are looking for a new best of breed technology to combine file and block I/O on a single storage unit. Which IBM solution would provide that capability at the lowest cost?

A customer’s data is growing too fast and they are unable to complete backups. They need to improve storage efficiency and get the data offsite for DR. They have said they are ready to have a product discussion. What technology should the storage specialist discuss at the next meeting?

The customer has agreed that the SAN proposal is the best solution for their budget. However they are still unsure of using such leading edge technology. Which item below would help them feel more comfortable?

A local manufacturing customer is looking for a highly scalable, easy to use disk storage system to support a new application they are bringing into the data center. The customer has an initial requirement for 40 TB of high performance storage but they expect to more than double the capacity needed once the application goes into full production. What IBM solution would be the most cost effective while meeting their initial requirements?

A customer has been quoted a DS8800. Which part of the TDA process would ensure that there is enough power in the customer location to operate the system?

The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway solution offers industry leading inline deduplication performance and scalability up to which one of the following?