When is PureFlex the best solution for a customer to consolidate servers , reduce complexity and sprawl, and
lower the total cost of ownership?

A.
Customer needs the highest ratio of memory to file servers.

B.
Customer desires a Linux or z/OS system, savings from environmentals, and reductions from third party
software licenses to achieve the best total economics with a consolidation ratio of 6 to 1 or greater.

C.
Customer wants to benefit from reduction in complexity, significant operating cost reduction.
Customer has a multivendor server and storage
environment or to compete against an integrated system like UCS, vBlock or Application System to take out
existing IBM infrastructure.

D.
Customer wants to consolidate critical business applications and databases onto the most secure, resilient
and scalable virtualization system for UNIX, z/OS, and Linux workloads while providing clients flexibility and
choice to leverage existing storage, networking, software,
infrastructure, and skills.