Which product is the Real-time Compression Appliance technology designed to work with?

Which Technical and Delivery Assessment is conducted after solution design and before proposal
to the customer?

A customer wants to design a new storage infrastructure that will have a common pool of storage.
There is a mix of POWER and x86 servers, and the high performance servers will use Fibre
Channel adapters. Both high availability and disaster recovery over a long distance are necessary.
Which piece of information is most important in order to connect a SAN to the network?

A customer is looking to start with a 100 TB storage solution. Over the next three years, they
expect to double their storage capacity and performance requirements.
Which IBM storage solution will scale both performance and capacity proportionately for this
customer?

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?