Brochure HP Storage training Make the most of your HP Storage solutions Brochure | HP Storage training Many customers enjoy the simplicity, agility, and value of their HP Storage solution. However, most do not come close to using it to its full potential simply because they are unaware of how to employ all the powerful tools that are part of their robust storage solution. This is where HP Education Services help. Today’s enterprises face ever-increasing challenges and choices in their storage requirements. They need to store unprecedented amounts of information, decide how and where to store it, and make certain the data is highly available and well managed. HP can show you how to make the most of the proven HP Storage solution and employ it as a tangible competitive advantage with the help of our extensive Storage training curriculum. Why HP Storage solutions? Simplicity HP Storage solutions employ a standards-based, modular design to simplify storage management, and enable rapid search and retrieval of information. This reduces IT costs and complexity, increases worker productivity, and provides users with quick access to data. Agility HP Storage is a flexible, adaptive storage infrastructure that is highly resilient to enable enhanced data protection. As a result, users can confidently adapt to business needs in real time, and drive IT change to create a competitive advantage. Value HP Storage solutions offer users investment protection and great value. Real-time scalability enables users to meet the demand for more storage performance, capacity, and capability while making efficient use of their IT resources and proactively managing data throughout its lifecycle. 2 Brochure | HP Storage training Why HP Education Services for storage? Building skills is one of the most effective ways to improve productivity, manage change, and build employee confidence. Well-trained personnel make better decisions, helping to increase business agility and sharpen your competitive edge. HP trains more than 200,000 people a year, helping to achieve performance excellence and has built its education services on a solid foundation of experience, content, delivery, and innovation. With more than 30 years of meeting complex training requirements worldwide, HP has the experience that creates successful outcomes. Like HP Storage products themselves, the HP Education Services that support them are simple, agile, and offer great value. They are simple to use Select from job-focused courses that can be ordered individually to meet specific training needs or to get the best value and utmost flexibility, purchase an HP Care Pack. HP Care Pack Services for Education are easy to purchase as well as simple to manage, and can be purchased with hardware, software support, or a contract. They are agile We offer a variety of training methods to match your needs. You can choose traditional instructor-led courses at one of our 120 training centers worldwide or onsite training customized to your needs, in your facility. You can also opt for Remotely Assisted Instruction Learning (RAIL) that combines the best of traditional classroom training (including live instructor and labs) with the best of online training (no traveling required). What’s more, if you prefer learning on your own schedule, at your own pace, make use of E-learning opportunities on the award-winning IT Resource Center, a “learning community” with extensive on-demand resources that can be accessed 24x7. They offer great value HP Education Services will enable you to improve your ROI in HP Storage technologies. Proper training will shorten your time to implementation and improve productivity once the systems are in place. In fact, training from HP will actually cost you less than informal training. Using your own experts to train less knowledgeable IT staff may seem “free” at first glance, but in reality you are just tying up the time of two valuable team members. With HP Education Services, only the people in need of training are involved, leaving your most experienced and valuable staff members free to focus on their duties. HP has built its education services on a solid foundation of experience, content, delivery, and innovation. •Global training with more than 90 training locations worldwide •Unmatched technical expertise and support for HP products and technologies •Award winning Virtual classrooms 1 and Virtual Labs for a real hands-on experience Training you need, when and where you need it with our RAIL •Comprehensive curriculum of job-specific training leading to vendor certification •Streamlined purchase and management of training with HP Care Pack Services for Education •More than 30 years of Education Consulting •Recognized as an IDC MarketScape leader for IT education 2 •Top 20 training provider and content development—TrainingIndustry.com mallBizWindows Collaboration Product of S the Year 2010 2 “ Worldwide IT Education and Training 2011 Vendor Analysis,” IDC MarketScape, January 2011 1 3 Brochure | HP Storage training HP Education Storage Portfolio HP Education Services provide training on storage networking, disk storage systems, and storage software to enable customers to get the most out of their HP Storage investment. •Storage Networking: Students learn the key aspects of SAN architectures—along with the HP technologies implemented in typical business environments—and the knowledge and skills that are needed to install and configure a SAN such as B-Series HP StoreFabric Switches. In-depth labs allow for the building of both simple and complex configurations. •HP Disk Storage Systems: Our courses will help students gain a good understanding of the configuration and management of the Enterprise Virtual Array and XP Array, along with the associated software that is part of their HP disk storage systems solution. Advanced courses build on introductory training and hands-on experience with in-depth training on business continuity and available technologies for HP disk storage systems. The products on which trainings are available, include: --HP StoreServ 7000 and 10000 --HP 9000 systems --HP 6000 and legacy EVA --HP StoreVirtual 4x00 --HP StoreSure 2x00 •HP Disk Backup Systems: Our courses provide a deep dive on backup systems and how to configure and use the technology. The following backup systems are included for training: --StoreOnce Backup --HP StoreEver VLS9x00 •NAS Systems: Students learn to successfully configure the components of NAS systems, monitor file system activities, and perform problem-solving and information-gathering tasks. Training offerings are available for the following NAS Systems: --HP StoreAll 9000 --HP StoreEasy 5000, 3000, and 1000 •HP Storage Software: HP Storage Data Protector Software and HP Storage Essentials Software courses provide knowledge to manage SAN environments and streamline business continuity. Advanced integration courses teach students how to perform a reduced downtime backup in a SAN with Oracle databases or Microsoft® technologies such as MS Exchange or SQL. 4 Brochure | HP Storage training HP Care Pack Services for Education For a proven, easy-to-purchase approach to training with HP Education Services, consider HP Care Pack. HP Care Pack Total Education offers the ultimate in flexibility, as well as the most simple and economical way to purchase training. This package provides your company with credits like a bank account, which can be used for any of the over 200 different scheduled instructor-led courses offered at HP education centers (including those discussed above), or more than 3,000 online courses through our HP eShop. Credits can also be used for your own HP Virtual Room events. If you know that your organization needs technical training, but are not exactly sure who needs what and when, then the flexibility of the HP Care Pack Total Education is an ideal match. Visit: hp.com/learn/carepack HP Care Pack training credits for Storage courses may also be purchased in blocks of training days, typically in one day units. The same flexibility exists to use these credits over a one year period for any training offered by HP. 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