The Real-time Compression Appliance can bring compression capabilities to which product?
A sales specialist discusses system acquisition requirements with a company's OFO, who states, "our final evaluation will be based on hard dollars, but l still want to see what kind of value I'm getting with the solution we choose."
How is this customer performing the purchasing analysis?
A customer is looking to start with a 100 TB storage solution. Over the next three years, they expect to double their storage capacity and performance requirements.
Which IBM storage solution will scale both performance and capacity proportionately for this customer?
An existing EMC customer has a number of UNIX and Windows based applications that are hosted on an EMC VMAX 10K system and the storage is fully populated. As part of an acquisition, the customer now wants to add a small mainframe into the current environment.
What is the best reason to recommend the DS8870 in this situation?
A customer wants to design a new storage infrastructure that will have a common pool of storage. There is a mix of POWER and x86 servers, and the high performance servers will use Fibre Channel adapters. Both high availability and disaster recovery over a long distance are necessary.
Which piece of information is most important in order to connect a SAN to the network?
A customer is concerned about data protection/redundancy since they have lost data in the past.
Which storage system dynamically and fluidly restores redundancy and equilibrium across all disks in the system during rebuild after a failed disk drive?
A customer needs to store video files for a minimum of 20 years.
Which characteristic of Linear Tape File System (LTFS) will the customer most benefit form?
A NetApp and IBM storage customer is discussing Tivoli Storage Productivity Center and OnCommand Insight with a sales specialist, who points out a major advantage of IBM over NetApp.
What is this advantage?