Scenario
Brownlow Communications is an enterprise that has been expanding rapidly by acquiring a number of smaller agencies As a result of these acquisitions, the company has several data centers, which are managed separately. Both the data center and campus networks are out-of-date and preventing the company from achieving its goals. The company is looking for a network refresh that will:
Make It easier and faster to deploy new applications In the virtualized data centers
Help the company to innovate and implement new business initiatives now and in the future, without constant major upgrades
Ensure that services are always available for employees and customers; critical data center applications, in particular, should experience minimal downtime
Support security initiatives and regulatory compliance
Improve performance for. and decrease user complaints about, the company’s Microsoft Lync solution and other multimedia applications
Enable users to connect their own devices to the network without burdening IT staff or introducing security issues
Make it simpler for the company to expand to new branches and to handle new acquisitions
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The CIO mentions that Brownlow is considering expanding to yet another data center for disaster recovery. What is a key value of an HP data center networking solution for this customer initiative?
A. HP technologies help companies implement disaster recovery in a single data center, so the expansion will not be necessary.
B. HP helps the customer to create different siloes at each data center, focusing one data center on storage and one on servers.
C. HP data center solutions dramatically decrease the time and complexity for interconnecting the data centers.
D. HP data center products are cheap, less than half the cost of competing products, so Brownlow can purchase twice as much equipment.