You are investigating an HPE Hybrid IT sates opportunity, and the customer mentions that staff members use automation tools such as Ansible and Chef. What floes the use of these tools Indicate about…

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Options

• AThis customer could be a good prospect for HPE Machine, which is designed to enhance the
• BThis customer is not a good prospect for an HPE Hybrid IT solution at this point, because the
• CThis customer could be a good prospect for HPE Hybrid IT solutions, which integrate with these
• DThis customer is probably a better prospect for HPE Intelligent Edge, because the company needs

• A
  7% (2)
• B
  7% (2)
• C
  82% (23)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

Option C is correct because Ansible and Chef are industry-standard IT automation and configuration management tools - they signal that the customer has a DevOps-oriented, infrastructure-as-code mindset. HPE Hybrid IT solutions are explicitly designed to integrate with these tools, allowing customers to manage on-premises, cloud, and hybrid workloads through familiar automation pipelines. A customer already using these tools is primed for HPE Hybrid IT because adoption friction is low and the value proposition aligns directly with how their team works.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A is wrong because HPE Machine Learning (or Memory-Driven Computing) addresses compute/memory architecture, not automation tool integration - Ansible/Chef usage doesn't point there.
• B is wrong because automation tool usage is actually a positive signal, not a disqualifier - it shows IT maturity that makes hybrid solutions easier to deploy.
• D is wrong because HPE Intelligent Edge focuses on edge computing and IoT use cases, not on datacenter/hybrid automation workflows that Ansible and Chef represent.

Memory tip: Think of Ansible and Chef as "IT automation = infrastructure maturity = Hybrid IT ready." If a customer automates infrastructure, they can automate hybrid infrastructure - that's HPE Hybrid IT's sweet spot.

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