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Customer Information

Contact Information
Name
Title
Company
Phone
Email

Comments
Company Industry
Banking	Insurance
Financial Markets	Manufacturing
Government	Retail/Wholesale
Healthcare	Telcom
Other (specify):

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Purchasing Considerations

Budget (USD)
< $5,000	< $10,000	< $20,000	< $30,000
< $40,000	< $50,000	< $75,000	< $100,000
< $200,000	< $300,000	< $400,000	< $500,000
< $600,000	< $700,000	< $800,000	< $900,000
< $1,000,000	< $2,000,000	< $3,000,000	< Not Sure
Other (specify):

Time Frame to Purchase
< 1 month	< 3 months	< 6 months	< Not Sure
Other (specify):

Finance
Lease	Purchase	Rent	Not Sure
Other (specify):

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Project Overview

Objectives
Application Rollout	High Availability Implementation
rPerf Performance Increase	Server Consolidation
Server Migration - Bull	Server Migration - HP
Server Migration - IBM	Server Migration - Sun
Not Applicable	Not Sure
Other (specify):

Application Rollout
Business Intelligence	Collaboration / Email	CRM
Database	eCommerce	ERP
Financial	Healthcare	Retail / Wholesale
Web Application	Not Applicable	Not Sure
Other (specify):

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Server Qualification

Server Preference
7037-A50	9119-590
9110-510	9119-595
9110-51A	9123-710 > OpenPower
9111-520	9124-720 > OpenPower
9113-550	9131-52A
9115-505	9133-55A
9116-561	Not Applicable
9117-570	Not Sure
Other (specify):

Servers
Bull Escala Market Guide
Escala Solutions
IBM p5 Market Guide

rPerf Performance
2.48	3.25	3.51	3.62	4.34	5.24
6.11	9.13	9.86	10.15	11.16	11.49
12.27	13.25	13.83	18.20	18.75	19.10
19.66	20.25	22.26	24.48	27.58	34.46
35.50	37.22	41.68	42.14	46.36	52.21
53.43	60.50	65.24	66.55	68.40	74.95
77.45	80.86	85.20	95.96	116.29	151.72
170.11	212.41	238.16	273.10	306.21	Not Sure
Other (specify):

Performance
StorFacts™ rPerf Report

Memory Capacity - GB/s
< 2	< 4	< 8	< 16	< 24	< 32
< 64	< 128	< 192	< 256	< 384	< 512
< 640	< 768	< 1024	< 1536	< 2048	Not Sure
Other (specify):

Memory
StorFacts™ Memory Report
Memory Solutions
Escala Express > Memory

Dedicated Partitions
< 1	< 2	< 4	< 16
< 32	< 64	< Not Applicable	< Not Sure
Other (specify):

Shared Partitions
< 0	< 10	< 210	< 40
< 160	< 254	< Not Applicable	< Not Sure
Other (specify):

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Storage Qualification

Disk Technology
Internal	DAS	NAS
SAN	NAS/SAN Combo	Not Sure
Other (specify):

Disk Technology
StorFacts™ Disk Report
StorFacts™ RAID Report
SAN Solutions
GST Storage Market Guide

Disk Capacity - TB/s
< 1	< 2	< 3	< 4	< 5	< 6
< 7	< 8	< 9	< 10	< 20	< 40
< 60	< 80	< 100	< 150	< 200	< Not Sure
Other (specify):

Disk Capacity
StorFacts™ Disk Report
StorFacts™ RAID Report
SAN Solutions
GST Storage Market Guide

Disk Performance - OPS
< 250	< 500	< 1,000	< 1,500
< 2,000	< 3,000	< 4,000	< 5,000
< 7,500	< 10,000	< 12,500	< 15,000
< 17,500	< 20,000	< 25,000	< Not Sure
Other (specify):

Disk Performance
StorFacts™ Disk Report
StorFacts™ RAID Report
SAN Solutions
GST Storage Market Guide

Backup Device
VTL - D2D / D2D2T	Enterprise Library	Midrange Library
Autoloader	Dual Drive	Single Drive
Internal Drive	Not Applicable	Not Sure
Other (specify):

Backup Device
Backup Solutions
VTL (D2D / D2D2T) Solutions
GST Storage Market Guide

Tape Technology
AIT	DAT	LTO	Mammoth	SAIT
SDLT	SLR	VXA	N/A	Not Sure
Other (specify):

Tape Technology
Tape Tech Corner
Backup Solutions
StorFacts™ Tape Report
GST Storage Market Guide

Optical Device
DVD-RAM	DVD-ROM	Not Sure
Other (specify):

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Adapter Qualification

Disk / Fibre Adapters
	4GB, 2-Port Fibre Channel	- qty
	4GB, 1-Port Fibre Channel	- qty
	2GB, 2-Port Fibre Channel	- qty
	2GB, 1-Port Fibre Channel	- qty
	Ultra320, 2-Port SCSI	- qty
	Not Sure
	Not Applicable

Disk / Fibre
StorFacts™ Fibre Channel Report
StorFacts™ SCSI Report
StorFacts™ Adapter Report
Adapter Market Guide

iSCSI Adapters
	iSCSI (Copper)	- qty
	iSCSI (Optical)	- qty
	Not Sure
	Not Applicable

iSCSI
StorFacts™ Adapter Report
Adapter Market Guide

Ethernet Adapters
	10GB, 1-Port Ethernet (SR)	- qty
	10GB, 1-Port Ethernet (LR)	- qty
	1GB, 2-Port Ethernet (Copper)	- qty
	1GB, 1-Port Ethernet (Copper)	- qty
	1GB, 2-Port Ethernet (Fibre)	- qty
	1GB, 1-Port Ethernet (Fibre)	- qty
	Not Sure
	Not Applicable

Ethernet
StorFacts™ Ethernet Report
Ethernet Solutions
StorFacts™ Adapter Report
Adapter Market Guide

Async Adapters
	128-Port Async	- qty