What is one benefit of the HPE acquisition of BlueData for HPE customers?
A. BlueData is primarily a consultant for managing data protection and recovery, and HPE Pointnext is adding services in these areas.
B. With the addition of BlueData, a leading hardware provider for supercomputing, HPE can offer customers a more extensive HPC portfolio.
C. Customers can obtain the BlueData software platform, designed to simplify the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI), on density-optimized HPE Apollo servers.
D. HPE has added BlueData's AI-based algorithms for deduplication and compression to make HPE storage solutions more efficient.
What is one productive way for companies to address exploding amounts of data?
A. Archive the data on flash until needed for regulatory audits.
B. Use intelligent storage to reduce the amount of data that the business collects.
C. Delete the oldest data so that they can focus on the freshest data.
D. Use AI to analyze the data and extract value from it
Which statement indicates that the customer could be a good candidate for HPE's composable and software-defined solutions?
A. "We spend a lot of money and time provisioning infrastructure and correcting errors caused by manual processes."
B. "We want to upgrade our rack servers as simply as possible. We're not expanding quickly."
C. "IoT is presenting a lot of security threats that we are not prepared to address."
D. "We can't seem to drive our growth up past 5% year-over-year, no matter what functionality we offer to customers."
What is an accurate, helpful description of HPE GreenLake?
A. HPE GreenLake is a fully customizable, consumption-based IT solution, which gives customers pay-as-you-go funding.
B. HPE GreenLake offers customers fully customized IT solutions that can be funded via a lease or subscription.
C. HPE GreenLake is an environmental initiative that lets customers pool their hardware in one "lake", to simultaneously cut spending and prevent unnecessary manufacturing pollution.
D. HPE GreenLake is an AI-based security solution that equips customers with the firmware-level protection they need for their legacy infrastructure.
What is a key distinguishing feature of HPE composable infrastructure solutions?
A. HPE provides separate, dedicated infrastructure solutions for storage, compute, and networking so that each solution is optimized for its function.
B. HPE provides all the automation tools that customers might require so that customers can eliminate existing tools and reduce costs.
C. HPE gives customers a choice of how they deploy workloads on the infrastructure, whether on bare metal, virtualized, or in containers.
D. HPE composable infrastructure solutions do not include an API so that customers can choose their own preferred API for programming the solution.
What is an accurate trend in how companies procure infrastructure?
A. More companies are looking for a pay-as-you-go model, event for on-prem infrastructure.
B. After experimenting with pay-as-you-go in the cloud, more and more customers want to return to a traditional CAPEX model.
C. Most customers do not have a preference towards CAPEX or OPEX as long as they like the solution.
D. Companies are trying to pay for their infrastructure upfront to avoid interest cost.
What is one challenge of implementing machine learning?
A. Biased or inaccurate data can teach the algorithm to behave in undesirable ways.
B. Developers struggle to make decision makers see the value of machine learning.
C. Few models for artificial intelligence and machine learning exist yet.
D. Companies do not have enough data to implement machine learning.
What is an effective way to begin a value-oriented conversation about HPE solutions with a customer?
A. "Have you compared HPE deduplication strategies with those of competing storage vendors?"
B. "What goals are you trying to achieve with your hybrid cloud environment ?and what stands in the way?"
C. "How much do you know about how 802.11ac and how it can improve performance in your wireless network?"
D. "Let's talk about how much memory capacity HPE servers have as opposed to white box servers."
How does HPE GreenLake help customers scale their IT services to meet demand?
A. HPE GreenLake moves the customer's workloads to the public cloud when demand exceeds available capacity.
B. HPE GreenLake provides capacity and planning features and a capacity buffer to help companies keep ahead of demand.
C. HPE GreenLake provides software-defined automation to discover and manage all HPE infrastructure within the customer's environment.
D. HPE GreenLake employs Al to identify and unlock underused resources and make them available for composable resource pools.
Which benefit is offered by a traditional on-prem solution?
A. Access to shared resources that reduces the risk of down-time to an absolute minimum.
B. The ability to implement strong security measures.
C. Flexible capacity that offers rapid scalability to meet processing and storage demands.
D. Capacity adaption that eliminates the need for over-provisioning