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Which tool should a sales person use to find the CAPEX and OPEX cost of an IBM FlashSystem V9000 compared to other flash vendors?

A storage representative needs to size a block disk solution. The representative has been given a file containing the target workload and I/O characteristics and has been told the response time requirement.
Which tool should be run to produce a configurable solution?

A client complements a new security system. The CCTV cameras create 1 TB of data per day. This data needs to be stored online for 90 days and will only be accessed when a security violation is reported. The client's projected growth is 30% per year.
Which IBM storage solution delivers the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) over three years for this client?

A customer has decided to create a virtualized infrastructure and is looking for an IBM storage product that can use its existing storage and offers compression to reduce its capacity required.
Which solution should be proposed?

How can a sales representative get answers about IBM Real-time Compression?

How does a salesperson know when a Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA) is required?

A retail client starts to notice a degradation in its hybrid cloud performance when it has seasonal sales. The volumes allocated to cloud storage is not the issue.
Capacity is fine. The client requires a solution to improve performance on the back end.
Which tool should be used to model IBM storage solutions for performance enhancements?

A customer is interested in the IBM Storwize Family and its ability to externally virtualize and integrate additional functionality, utilizing non-IBM hardware. The customer also wants to know if IBM Storwize Virtualization supports its various non-IBM Storage systems.
Which IBM tool should be used to verify the customer's environment?

A public transportation customer wants to accelerate its database batch processes. Flexibility, dual-site production connectivity, High Availability (HA) and Disaster
Recovery (DR) are mandatory.
Which solution should the sales representative propose?

Which IBM resource maintains a web site to assist with sales strategies against EMC?

A customer has a requirement for a low cost tape library. The library must support reparation of library resources (tape drives and cartridge slots) for four different application servers.
Which tape library should the sales specialist recommend?

A customer wants to store CIFS data and requires a copy of the data at a disaster recovery site.
Which IBM solution should be suggested?