Which resource can be used to show the financial benefit of IBM equipment over its competition?

A customer is implementing a data analytics application and is considering flash storage from IBM and HPE 3PAR all-flash.

Which resource can be used to show the financial benefit of IBM equipment over its competition?
A . Butterfly study
B . VSI
C . TCOnow!
D . SIO study

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Answer: C

Explanation:

Storage Infrastructure Optimization (sio ) is a tool to analyze the current storage on utilization

Butterfly Storage Environment Assessment, Enabling organisations to fully realise their data

protection reengineering strategies, and find new ways to drive greater value from storage software

and hardware solutions (technical)

IBM, in conjunction with Blue Data Partners, introduces Visual Storage Intelligence (VSI)- a service that provides a visual health analysis of your complex SAN environment in minutes.

TCOnow is a comparing tool on a financial base (total cost of ownership) it will help you decide whether and how to consolidate your existing direct attached storage as well as any existing EMC, HDS, IBM, or other Fibre Channel arrays. TCOnow! for Enterprise Storage asks all the necessary questions to generate a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) comparison for consolidating one to ten heterogeneous storage silos into an enterprise SAN. You can compare acquisition and operational costs alone or including SAN switches and directors, storage virtualization, even data recovery software.