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A System x prospect has very limited technical resources for managing their infrastructure. They ask what System x technology could address this issue. Which of the following should be recommended?
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A customer is planning to virtualize a large group of servers critical to their business operations. The customer asks the sales professional for information that would validate their plans. What information could be supplied to provide industry trends and directions of the solution?
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A customer is looking at the Oracle Times Ten product for an in database memory solution. Which of the following IBM products would be comparable?
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Which presales tool has detailed one-page technical summaries for components of System x, BladeCenter and PureFlex systems down to each model and option?
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A System x sales professional has a meeting with a client who is looking to refresh their IT environment. The sales professional wants to convince the client that IBM PureFlex is a great IT solution. Which of the following are fundamental benefits of the PureFlex that you want to highlight in your meeting?
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An installed Cisco LAN customer is concerned about the IBM networking switches that have been proposed as part of the solution. The customer is most concerned with the IBM switches integrating into the existing network without issues. Which of the following is the best resource to use to remove the customer doubt about interoperability?
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A customer has the following equipment installed in their data center: -- an IBM BladeCenter H chassis two power supplies six HS22V blades -- three Nortel 1/10 Gb ESMs. The retail customer purchased a new HX5 with MAX5. Which of the following must be added to install the HX5 with MAX5?
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A retail customer is looking at ways to reduce power requirements. They are considering deploying two hundred IBM HS23 blades running Red Hat Linux in IBM BladeCenter H chassis. The customer has already chosen Intel low power CPUs. The customer requires 45GB of storage. Which of the following on-board storage options allows the customer to reduce power consumption of each blade?
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A System x sales professional is pursuing a large complex opportunity. There are several competitors involved. Which of the following focus on the iDataPlex value proposition?
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A customer is looking to build a new high performance computing environment. The customer wants an integrated solution that offers a variety of choices for nodes, storage, and network. Which IBM solution should you as a System x seller recommend that would be able to meet all of the customer requirements?