Which issue is one of the business drivers for HPE GreenLake?
A. Flat growth
B. Increased price competition
C. Inefficient workflows for line of business
D. Long procurement cycles
Which correctly describes how customers are using public cloud today?
A. Just under half of customers run any workloads in the public cloud, and they are primarily SMBs.
B. A majority of customers now run the majority of their workloads in the public cloud.
C. Most customers are using public cloud services, but only a small minority of workloads actually run in the public cloud.
D. Only about ten percent of customers run any workloads in the public cloud, but they are the largest enterprises.
What is one key value that customers are seeking from their data platform?
A. Automation to deliver data on demand
B. Ability to perform a wholesale migration from on-prem to cloud
C. Less of a concentration on hybrid environments as most data is on-prem
D. Ability to use run analytics on tape for lower costs
What is one characteristic that indicates that you could have a good opportunity to sell HPE Nimble?
A. The customer puts absolute zero downtime at the top of their list of requirements.
B. The customer is looking for a simple storage solution for their VMware environment.
C. The customer is looking for a software-defined storage solution to store files for big data.
D. The customer wants to simplify by transforming to a hyperconverged environment.
Which common challenge can make a customer a good candidate for HPE GreenLake?
A. Users are complaining about inconsistent applications performance at branch offices.
B. IT staff is overwhelmed, putting the customer at risk of error-caused security and availability issues.
C. The customer's growth remains stagnant and below 1% a year.
D. Financial pressures are causing the customer to turn away from OPEX in favor of CAPEX.
How does HPE recommend positioning HPE SimpliVity versus HPE Nimble solutions?
A. SimpliVity is targeted for scale up storage requirements while Nimble is targeted for scale out requirements.
B. SimpliVity is targeted for mission critical workloads while Nimble is targeted for general purpose workloads.
C. Both solutions are targeted for general purpose workloads, but SimpliVity is targeted specifically for emerging big data and AI applications.
D. Both solutions are targeted for general purpose workloads, but SimpliVity is for customers who want hyperconvergence.
Why is a Unified API a critical component of composability?
A. It is exposes the Artificial Intelligence (AI) features that are embedded in HPE InfoSight.
B. It provides a container run-time environment for DevOps, which speeds up application development.
C. It enables customers to use the tools they prefer to further orchestrate their environment.
D. It helps customers establish silos for different workloads, making it easier to manage the infrastructure.
You have proposed an HPE Primera 630 solution to a customer. The customer has had to do forklift upgrades in the past and is concerned about that hassle in the future. What feature of your proposal should you explain?
A. The Primera 630 system offloads most of the customers' data to HPE StoreOnce Catalyst, making upgrades unlikely to be necessary.
B. The Primera 630 system is the largest capacity solution that HPE offers, so the need for a future upgrade is unlikely.
C. The Primera 630 system is built on the same hardware platform as Nimble, so the customer can seamlessly move from Primera to Nimble as necessary.
D. The Timeless Service for the Primera 630 system will permit a free upgrade to a larger scale Primera system in the future.
What is one way that HPE helps customers to make their data center more agile?
A. The HPE Unified API is an AI-driven engine for helping customers to analyze and optimize their workloads.
B. HPE InfoSight helps customers to reduce the scripts that they use to provision servers from hundreds of lines to one.
C. HPE Composable Fabric solutions help customers to gain more visibility into where their data is stored on-prem or in the cloud.
D. HPE Composable Infrastructure solutions help customers to compose compute and storage for workloads on demand.
What is one distinguishing feature of HPE Pointnext?
A. It is the research lab where HPE develops the disruptive technologies of tomorrow.
B. It delivers services that help customers transform their culture, modernize processes, and enhance IT skills.
C. It provides a wide array of software as a service (SaaS) solutions for customer consumption.
D. It provides customers with compute, storage, and networking products that are not yet generally available.