While discussing evaluation criteria for storage acquisition, a customer uses the following
phrases: “acquisition cost,” “software licenses,” “staffing,” and “ongoing maintenance cost.”
Which financial term best corresponds to the customer’s discussion points?

The exhibit represents the heat map for a DS8800. Click on the volume that would benefit
most from Easy Tier.

A customer has a large repository of geophysical data (>500 TBs and growing). This data is
primarily in larger single- file datasets. This customer would like to reduce their overall cost,
floor space, and power consumption. The customer has also communicated that the data
must be accessible as a file system and provide reasonable access times.
Which technology best meets these customer needs?

What are the main logical components in the DS8000?

A customer’s OPEX and CAPEX costs associated with their current storage estate are
growing rapidly. Which tool shows the financial benefits of moving to an IBM storage estate?

How many cache controllers does a fully-loaded IBM Virtualization Engine TS7720 with a
base frame and expansion frame contain?

What happens when XIV with SSD caching installed suffers an SSD failure?

Which statement is true about Capacity Magic outputs?

A Business Partner has completed the sale of an XIV Gen3. What is the most important step
to ensure customer satisfaction?

A customer has asked that IBM propose a solution to replace a data warehouse that
currently resides on two EMO DMX systems. Several staff retired recently, and there is one
remaining junior storage administrator. The current solution has approximately 200 usable
TB of storage and sees maximum througIBMut at just under 600 MB/sec and 30,000 IOPS.
Which solution should be proposed?