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According to IDC, what percentage of organizations spend

50%-75% of their application development budget on legacy
applications?

20%

68%
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90%

80%

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What is the main purpose of the Storage Services layer?

To connect DevOps to the Storage Admin

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Create storage classes and data policies

Develop protocols and data discovery

Make data copies and access local storage

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What percentage of the market share does Red Hat OpenShift

control?

60%

45%

37%
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80%

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What are containers?

A platform as a service that allows you to build, test, and

deploy applications quickly
A hybrid cloud platform as a service built around Linux
Packages of software that contain all of the necessary 
elements to run in any environment
An open-source container orchestration system for
automating software deployment, scaling, and
management
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Your client wants to know how IBM Spectrum Fusion can be

deployed. What are the two deployment mechanisms for IBM
Spectrum Fusion?

Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks

IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Satellite
Storage Defined Software (SDS) and Hyper Converged
Infrastructure (HCI)
Standalone software (Fusion Software) and hyper- 

converged infrastructure (Fusion HCI)

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You’ve been invited to speak at a conference about the

approach that modernized organizations take towards storage.
You plan to talk about IBM Spectrum Fusion Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure (HCI) as one of those things many of these
forward-looking organizations do, so you decide to showcase a
proof of concept (POC) a financial services organization did.
You chose this POC because that company was able to deploy
their application in how many days?

1 week

1 day
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2 days

3 days

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What product is IBM Spectrum Fusion built on?

VMware

IBM Spectrum Storage

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IBM Flash System

IBM Cloud Object Storage

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Your client questions the simplicity of managing IBM

Spectrum Fusion HCI and wants to know more about the
architecture. How was IBM Spectrum Fusion built?

Using VMware technology

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Using IBM Cloud Satellite technology

Following Red Hat best practices using operators

Using a hypervisor layer

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What dollar amount (US Dollar) is the demand for container

applications anticipated to reach by 2025?

$10 Billion (US Dollars)

 $8 Billion (US Dollars)

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$42 Billion (US Dollars)

$20 Billion (US Dollars)

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A Technology Sales Managing Director (MD) just came from a

meeting and Slacks you with updates about that meeting. The
MD finished the Slack exchange with the following direct
message: “The client also talked about something called IBM
Spectrum Fusion. I must admit, I’ve never heard of it before.
Tell me in a sentence what it is.” You tell this MD that IBM
Spectrum Fusion is what?

Technology built on proven IBM Flash Systems

A container native software defined storage stack 

designed for Red Hat OpenShift, including IBM Cloud

Paks
A container native software defined storage stack only for
IBM Cloud Paks

A storage solution for Kubernetes that only provides a

container native filesystem
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8. You’re talking to a client about how IBM Spectrum Fusion

provides a simple unified management interface that makes it
easy to implement, manage, and provision applications.
Before you finish your discussion, you want to ensure they
truly understand two core capabilities that this solution
provides. What two core IBM Spectrum Fusion capabilities do
you mention?

Moving data locally and decentralized data management

Data services and single protocol location awareness

Global data platform and application resiliency

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Enterprise storage and refactoring data

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The challenges and risks associated with trying to leverage

existing IT models with new workloads usually involves a
disconnect or miscommunication between which two groups?

Application Owners and IT Operations

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IT Operations and Development

Product Management and Marketing

Sales and Business Units

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You’re talking to a client about how IBM AIOps automation

solutions compliment an IBM Spectrum Fusion deployment.
The client asks you, “What can Turbonomic do for my
Spectrum Fusion deployment?” What do you tell them?

TurboNomic AIOps for Spectrum Fusion provides deep 

integration, insight, and performance statistics along
with mitigation elements should any performance
limitations take place

TurboNomic AIOps for Spectrum Fusion reports manual

data and workload movement

TurboNomic AIOps for Spectrum Fusion provides

consistent policies and configuration across all clusters

TurboNomic AIOps for Spectrum Fusion provides

consistent storage performance across all arrays centralize
infrastructure monitoring

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After a thorough investigation into alternatives to Red

HatOpenShift data services, what was the reason a large US
financial institution chose to use IBM Spectrum Fusion?

The customer needed performance insights along with

mitigation elements for older applications

The customer needed to move at a more rapid pace to 

leverage the capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift and

hybrid cloud in a regulated government environment

The customer needed to migrate data to new databases

on-prem

The customer needed to vertically scale applications and

clusters in a secured government environment.

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You’re talking to a client about IBM Spectrum Fusion and they

note how they saw a whitepaper that talked about Spectrum
Fusion Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI). They ask you
specifically what is the primary benefit that Spectrum Fusion
HCI provides. What do you tell them?

X86 Bare-metal OpenShift cluster-in-a-box enables 

clients to get Cloud Pak and container workloads out of

pilot and into production faster

Simple, scalable building blocks for high performance

hybrid cloud storage solutions

Software-defined storage management software with

protection, replication, backup and caching elements

An all-in-one data resilience solution for VMs

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Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are constantly looking for

ways to improve IT and digital assets to help achieve business
goals. What is the number one goal for modern IT shops?

Integration

On-prem solutions

Governance

Agility
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Your client wants to know how IBM Spectrum Fusion creates

an environment such that data is always available. How does
IBM Spectrum Fusion ensure that data is always available for
applications?

Data Governance

Data Virtualization

Data Integration

Caching
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IBM Spectrum Fusion provides a very robust set of global data

services on a foundation for all Red Hat OpenShift
applications. What is the main purpose of IBM Spectrum
Fusion Global Data Platform?

Access and share local data

Virtualize access only to new storage

Move data and create data copies

To access any data source, behind any protocol, 

anywhere

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Clients are recognizing that containers can bring significant

benefit to both developers and infrastructure and operations
teams. Organizations large and small are exploring
containerization. Who is the most significant player in
containers?

Microsoft

Amazon

Red Hat
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Azure

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Agile organizations can quickly redirect their people and

priorities toward value-creating opportunities. What is the
second most popular reason Chief Information Officers (CIOs)
pursue Infrastructure Modernization?

Cost efficiency

Security and risk reduction

Agility and time to market

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Quality of services and reliability

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There are a lot of challenges with running Red Hat OpenShift

in a private data center including integrating with legacy
storage. What is a benefit of a bare-metal solution?

Capital expenses

Increased hardware and software requirements

No reliance on VMware
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Decreased scalability

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There are several operational and financial benefits that

comes with deploying Red Hat OpenShift on bare-metal such
as reducing overhead costs. What does IBM consider to be the
best bare-metal deployment platform for Red Hat OpenShift?

IBM Cloud

IBM Spectrum Fusion HCI

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Azure

VMware

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Your client wants to know the data sources IBM Spectrum

Fusion supports. What data source(s) does IBM Spectrum
Fusion support for data ingestion?

Amazon
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Any data source

Only IBM

Azure

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With business modernization and transformation comes

“headwinds.” How did IBM recently identify “headwinds” in
modernization challenges and determine the value that the
IBM Storage portfolio could bring to the industry?

Analysis conducted by the IBM Consulting team for 

Spectrum Fusion
Customer on-site visits

Interviewed Business Partners

Studied whitepapers

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Containers have been recognized as playing a key role in

deploying applications faster and more efficiently. Who is the
market leader for hybrid cloud and multicloud Kubernetes
deployments?

Red Hat OpenShift

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Google

Azure

Amazon