An existing HP blade customer is dissatisfied and wants to know what IBM can provide. When you arrive you
learn they have recently had a briefing from Cisco on their UCS blades. Which of the following will position an
IBM solution best against the known competition?

A.
IBM BladeCenter provides an open platform with exceptional choice, efficiency and ease of use.

B.
IBM’s massive patent portfolio provides benefits like common infrastructure and management tools forx86
and POWER based servers.

C.
IBM PureFlex utilizes integrated networking whichsupports the increasing demand for “east-west”
datacenter traffic avoiding performance limitation of always going through top-of-rack or core switches.

D.
IBM PureFlex delivers an integrated, flexible platform with common management across servers, storage
and network resources and also integrates decades of experience through management policies and
expert patterns.