Sample Questionnaire
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QUESTION 1
Question type: Choose-Many Case Study Section: Challenges
What types of operational challenges did deploying your Acme
Systems B7500 solve for your organization?
• Improved the efficiency of a business process
• Reduced IT infrastructure costs
• Improved overall system uptime
• Delivered faster performance
• Improved disaster recovery
• Improved data protection of critical corporate information
• Met infrastructure scalability requirements
• Improved management efficiencies of existing infrastructure resources
• Met regulatory compliance standards
• Other
QUESTION 2
Question type: Choose-Many Case Study Section: Challenges
What were the top purchasing drivers for buying your Acme
Systems B7500?
• Reduce Costs
• Meet compliance regulations
• Secure sensitive data
• Consolidate servers
• Consolidate storage
• Meet a compressing backup window
• Meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs
• Meet performance and QoS SLAs
• Support business growth expectations
• Support higher uptime SLAs
• Achieve better management economies of scale
• Other
QUESTION 3
Question type: Choose-Many Case Study Section: Results
Which vendors did you evaluate before choosing Acme Systems?
Please check all that apply.
• IBM
• HP
• Cisco
• Oracle
• Microsoft
• Dell
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QUESTION 4
Question type: Matrix Case Study Section: Results
Please rate the following Acme capabilities in terms of how
differentiated they are compared to the competition.
Very highly differentiated, Very differentiated, Differentiated, Not differentiated
• Performance
• Ease of use
• Reliability
• Scalability
QUESTION 5
Question type: Choose-Many Case Study Section: Use Case
Select which applications are used in conjunction with your Acme
Systems B7500.
• Oracle Databases
• IBM DB2 Databases
• Microsoft SQL Server Databases
• eCommerce Application
• Microsoft Exchange
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Oracle Applications
• SAP
• Other
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QUESTION 6
Question type: Choose-Many Case Study Section: Use Case
What operating systems hosts do you have in your environment?
• Microsoft Windows
• Red Hat Linux
• Novell/SuSe Linux
• HP-UX
• IBM AIX
• Sun Solaris
• Apple Mac OS
QUESTION 7
Question type: Choose-One Case Study Section: Results
What was the payback period for your investment in your Acme
Systems B7500?
• 0 Months
• 1 - 3 Months
• 3 - 6 Months
• 6 - 9 Months
• 9 - 12 Months
• 12 - 18 Months
• 18 - 24 Months
• > 24 Months
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QUESTION 8
Question type: Choose-One Case Study Section: Results
By what percentage did your Acme Systems B7500 reduce your
Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) of your IT infrastructure?
• Greater than 75%
• 50-74%
• 25-49%
• 10-24%
• Up to 10%
QUESTION 9
Question type: Choose-Many Case Study Section: Results
By what percentage did your Acme Systems B7500 increase the
productivity of your IT staff?
• Greater than 75%
• 50-74%
• 25-49%
• 10-24%
• Up to 10%
QUESTION 10
Question type: Quote Case Study Section: Testimonials
In a sentence or two, please describe the operational impact that
Acme Systems has had on your organization.
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