The IT director of a data center has servers from Dell, IBM and Sun:
- The Dell servers run Linux
- The Sun Servers run Solaris
- The IBM servers run AIX.
Consolidation to fewer platforms is being considered.
What competitive advantage does the purchase of a new POWER7 server have over a new Sun T5 server for this customer environment?
An existing customer with a POWER5 server would like to compare the performance differences for a new Power Systems server. Which resource provides the information in the most concise format?
A data center manager has been tasked with improving service, utilization, and availability of the enterprise. The manager is interested in finding a management utility product, but wants to have a no-charge trial period before going to the effort of securing funding approval. Which product or service supports the requirements?
A firm has very little time to apply maintenance to their systems. Which product provides the capability to move work from one server to another, so that the first sewer is free for maintenance?
A customer has a large Oracle database partition that requires 28 cores and 412 GB of memory. The customer expects to grow 25% over the next year and wants to buy a server that will handle the growth, without over buying. Which server should be recommended?