A customer is looking for a new enterprise storage system. In visiting the customer to meet with
the storage administrator, the visitors log book reveals that EMC has recently visited.
To be successful with this opportunity, at what level must the sales specialist be calling to be at
the same level as EMC?

The PRIMARY purpose of the SAN Volume Controller is to provide which function?

A customer is interested in an optional XIV Gen3 feature that provides superior performance and
faster response time. What is this XIV feature?

A customer needs a way to over-allocate storage capacity to users to reduce administrative costs
of manually managing allocations.
Which storage efficiency feature of XIV provides this capability?

Which tool or resource can be used to verify the available feature codes for a DS8800?

A customer has a number of non-IBM storage arrays, which are capable of provisioning using only
traditional RAID volumes. Over-allocation of storage is an issue on some arrays and not on others.
In order to balance storage use across the arrays, the customer wishes to virtualize the
environment.
Which advantage would IBM SAN Volume Controller provide over EMC VPLEX?

A POWER customer is looking for a backup solution that will handle all of their small files that use
Tivoli Storage Manager.
Which solution should be recommended to this customer?

A customer wants a proposal for storage that includes three years, 7×24 coverage for their
DS8800 storage array. How should a sales specialist respond?

An IBM customer that provides cloud storage has issues with the management of large data
volumes across an environment consisting of several different storage products. Some
applications have insufficient storage capacity or performance in their current locations. A possible
resolution for this issue would be to consolidate the applications onto D58 800.
Why is this?

A mainframe customer who utilizes 3490 tape is interested in reducing their need for tape and
would like to compare offerings from IBM and Oracle.
Which competitive product from Oracle should the specialist gather information on?