A local company has a high performance computing (HPC) application. What storage technology
provides the lowest cost per gigabyte?

You are responding to a customer RFI for a refresh of the high performance data warehouseing
project and notice that it is written to highlight another vendor’s technology. Where would you get
detailed IBM product information and competitor comparison information?

A customer is looking for the highest level of performance for their database environment. Which
of the following configurations is the most appropriate to meet their requirements?

RSM supports which of the following?

A customer is concerned that they will dramatically undersize a logical drive/LUN. What DS5000
feature can be referenced to address their fears?

A customer is looking to implement a disaster recovery strategy. The secondary site is
approximately 100km away from their primary production site. What advanced copy functions do
best practices support?

What is the maximum link rate speed of the iSCSI host interface on the DS3300?

A customer is conducting seismic studies off the coast and is storing the data on their DS4700.
Due to the logistics involved the customer exchanges EXP810 shelves periodically when capacity
becomes low and run the analytics on land with their DS5300. What technology of the IBM
DS4000 DS5000 makes this possible and keeps data integrity?

What is the minimum firmware code level to support 128 remote mirror relationships?

You have won an RFP for a messaging environment at a local aerospace company. In order to
verify that you have proposed the correct hardware and services you should: