What is a key advantage of leasing storage equipment over buying storage equipment?

A. Leasing ensures business continuity for leased equipment.

B. Leasing is not on the client's balance sheet.

C. Leasing improves the alignment of project cost with project benefits.

D. Leasing rates automatically reduce over time.

A customer is looking to add copy services to provide disaster recovery between sites with heterogeneous storage.

Which product should the sales specialist discuss with the customer?

A. IBM Spectrum Control

B. IBM Spectrum Archive

C. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

D. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

A customer wants application consistent restore capabilities.

Which software should the sales specialist recommend to this customer?

A. IBM Spectrum Accelerate

B. IBM Spectrum Scale

C. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

D. IBM Spectrum Control

A customer has an existing XIV storage environment that is running out of capacity. The customer wants to add a flash storage system that utilize the same grid architecture design and device drivers.

Which storage solution should be considered?

A. IBM DS8886

B. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

C. IBM FlashSystem 900

D. IBM FlashSystem A9000R

A customer wants to implement a software-defined storage solution and has existing storage leases that they want to leverage as part of the solution.

Which IBM SAN Volume Controller license is required?

A. Encryption

B. Virtualization

C. Replication

D. Real-time Compression

A VMware customer has a heterogeneous SAN storage environment including arrays from HDS and IBM. The customer needs to integrate and seamlessly manage, monitor, and report on the entire environment.

Which storage offering meets this customer's needs?

A. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

B. IBM Virtual Storage Center

C. IBM Spectrum Control

D. IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Which feature of the IBM storage portfolio can make the cost of IBM FlashSystem V9000 competitive with the cost per TB of spinning disk?

A. Data Reduction Pools

B. High IOPS

C. Ultra Low Latency

D. Easy Tier

Which function does a pre-install Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) perform?

A. Review the customer pricing of the IBM storage solution.

B. Provide a roadmap of questions to use when reviewing a proposal for IBM storage products prior to ordering.

C. Use a checklist of questions to assess the site readiness for installation.

D. Review the technical configuration before ordering the storage solution.

A customer wants to have a disk storage system that provides recommendations on capacity growth that will optimize performance.

Which solution should the sales specialist recommend?

A. ESS with intra-tier rebalancing

B. IBM TS4500 with Disk Optimizer

C. IBM DCS3860 with Capacity Magic

D. IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Storage Insights Pro

An IBM Spectrum Scale customer needs to increase data capacity, while reducing TCO for data storage for this cluster.

Which IBM offering will lower TCO for IBM Spectrum Scale?

A. IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

B. IBM Spectrum Archive

C. IBM Spectrum Connect

D. IBM Spectrum Control