HP LTO 6 Tape Drive £1,000 Cash Back Offer

HP are currently offering up to £1,000 end user cash back on selected LTO 6 Tape Drives and Autoloaders.
There has never been a better time to upgrade your exisitng tape backup to a larger faster unit.

For qualifing products and the claim form please click here..

If you need help with any additional details regarding LTO6 or need a solution then please contact us and we will be happy to help you.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

Double Points on QLogic EMEA Rewards

While today’s servers have more ‘built-in’ capability than those of just a few years ago, the reality is that a significant number just don’t have the connectivity options required to work in the user’s environment.

• 20% of the servers deployed today require some kind of add-on adaptors to provide additional LAN or SAN connectivity.
• 50% of these add-on adaptors are not sold at the point of server sale. Don’t you think this is a missed opportunity? 

If you're not selling HP QLogic adaptors as part of your server solutions, you're missing out on a great opportunity to increase deal size and margins.

To claim your rewards please go to www.qlogicrewards-emea.com

If you need help with any additional details or need solution using QLogic Switches, Adaptors etc. then please contact us and we will be happy to help you.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

HP Introduces Industry's Only Complete Unified BYOD Solution

New unified wired and wireless solutions that deliver a simple, scalable and secure network supporting BYOD initiatives are now available from HP.

More and more enterprises are seeing significant benefits from allowing employees to choose the device they use to get their jobs done, and are adopting bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives. In fact, a CIO survey conducted at Gartner Summits in the United States and Europe indicated that, by 2014, 80 percent of the global workforce will be eligible to participate in a BYOD program. While the BYOD trend increases flexibility and productivity, it introduces a host of new challenges for your IT administrators.

A key concern for IT is how to effectively secure and manage the network and application access for personally-owned devices. User‑owned devices cannot easily be identified, and therefore managed by your IT department. Malware infected clients can compromise your network security when allowed access to the network or vital business applications and information Security is not the only challenge. You might still rely on traditional separate wired and wireless networks and management tools that increase maintenance overhead and can’t provide the flexible access policies that personally-owned devices require. Your enterprise needs to think beyond essential BYOD access and consider the critical need for unified wired and wireless visibility and management to streamline your overall network management

What are the advantages of a HP BYOD solution?
The HP BYOD solution solves challenges holistically with the following approaches:

• Provides comprehensive user access management that delivers device onboarding, provisioning, and monitoringSupports multivendor environment with in-depth policy management
• Meets the growing demand for wireless access with enterprise-scale wireless infrastructure
• Allows for a continuous, optimized wireless experience for users

If you need help with any additional details regarding a HP BYOD solution then please read the Press Release or contact us and we will be happy to help you.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

Westcoast Solutions Lab - What we can offer you..

The Westcoast Solutions Lab is Perfect if you sell to SMB's (small and medium businesses) allowing you to demonstrate the latest technology innovations from HP and Microsoft within realistic IT budgets.



If you would like more information or want to book the solutions lab then please go to http://www.westcoast.co.uk/lab for more information.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

February 2013 - HP Server, Storage and Networking offers

In order for you to have your own copy of this months offers, We offer them in a easy downloadable PDF for you.

This month many of HP's fantastic Storage and Networking promotions have been extended!

Please click the image above to open the PDF for more details.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team   

G7 to Gen8 Processor Conversion Suggestions

We have a fair amount of calls regarding processor performance comparisons between the previous generation Intel X56xx Series processors used in the G7 servers and the new Intel E5-26xx processors used in Gen8.

HP have made a nice easy to read G7 to Gen8 processor conversion chart to help assist you in choosing a processor for your needs.

You can either opt for same performance which shows the price saving you will achieve, or you can go for the same price and you will be able to see how much performance you will be gaining.

If you need help with any additional details regarding the new range of Gen8 Servers or need a solution then please contact us and we will be happy to help you.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

Introducing the HP StoreEver LTO-6 Tape Family

StoreEver LTO-6 Ultrium 6650

HP has launched the sixth-generation of the HP StoreEver LTO Ultrium Tape Technology – HP LTO-6 – across its complete portfolio of tape drives, tape automation and tape media. This enables HP's Tape Partners to continue to tap into this substantial market opportunity with solutions that scale to keep pace with unpredictable data growth, provide a cost-effective data retention tier, and deliver long-term durability for archiving.

What’s new with HP StoreEver LTO-6 Tape?
HP StoreEver LTO-6 delivers twice the capacity of LTO-5 in the same cartridge footprint with up to 6.25 TB (compressed 2.5:1) on a single LTO-6 tape cartridge. As a result massive data archives can be retained in a physically small space. Keeping pace with data growth simply means adding in more data cartridges.

HP StoreEver Tape Libraries allow customers to easily scale both storage capacity and backup performance, through a simple upgrade. Store up to 50 TBs with a HP StoreEver LTO-6 Tape Autoloader, up to 600 TBs with a HP StoreEver Mid-Range Tape Library and up to 44 PBs with a HP StoreEver Enterprise Tape Library4.

HP StoreEver LTO-6 tape drives deliver compressed speeds of up to 400 MB/second or 1.4 TB/hour and therefore enable customers to spend less time ensuring that the business data on their server is protected. Furthermore, HP StoreEver LTO-6 in combination with HP StoreOpen with LTFS, delivers faster access to assets stored on tape.

Increase savings with lower energy requirements:
HP StoreEver LTO-6 tape drives feature a hibernate mode which places the drive in a low power setting when no tape cartridge is in place. Tape drives are already renowned for their extremely low energy use, especially compared with disk drives. The HP LTO-6 hibernate mode means that customers can now benefit from further energy savings while lengthening the life of their tape drive.

Assured long-term data protection:
HP StoreEver LTO-6 builds on five generations of experience and features enhanced technology that assures highly reliable data restores even after long-term archival.

The launch of LTO-6 also sees the addition of a new type of tape media – Barium Ferrite (BaFe) – which complements the traditional Metal Particle (MP) media in HP’s LTO media portfolio. Both media types are designed and tested against the most stringent LTO-6 format specifications and deliver equal levels of capacity, performance and reliability.

If you need help with any additional details regarding LTO6 or need a solution which uses this new technology then please contact us and we will be happy to help you.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

A huge THANK YOU to all 21,930 of our readers...

I just wanted to say a big thank you to all of the 21,930 readers we had in 2012.
I hope that the content of this blog has helped you and your customers during the last year keep up to date with developments from HP as and when they happen.

Some of the major blog posts that generated the most visits last year were...

• HP 3PAR Starter Kit now even more affordable
• HP ProLiant Gen8 series announced!
• HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 - T1 Storage at a midrange price.
• HP Gen 8 Servers e-Series vs p-Series - Whats the Difference?? 

If there are any particular type of updates you wish to receive more of, please email me and I will be more than happy to add these the blog.

In the meantime I hope you have had a very pleasant new year and are looking forward to what 2013 brings. And as always, If you need help with a solution then please contact us and we will be more than happy to help you.

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Richard Stock
Westcoast ESSN Technical Consultant

January 2013 - HP Server, Storage and Networking offers

In order for you to have your own copy of this months offers, We offer them in a easy downloadable PDF for you.

This month many of HP's fantastic Storage and Networking promotions have been extended!









Please click the image above to open the PDF for more details.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team  

Intelligent Provisioning replaces SmartStart (v1.30 now supports Windows Server 2012)

If you have bought a HP Gen8 Server recently you may have noticed that the SmartStart CD is no longer included. This is because HP now have a feature called Intelligent Provisioning which is embedded on the server.

Intelligent Provisioning provides similar functionality as SmartStart, but has some significant enhancements that SmartStart did not have such as:

• Ability to update your drivers and systems software by connecting directly to HP.com and perform firmware updates and install an OS in the same step.

• Provision a server remotely using HP iLO 4

• Remote Support registration. 

• A new "Recommended Install" for quick one-click, simple fast installation  - This express installation process has preset defaults and will perform a software and firmware update if the network is available at your location. (Recommend that you use the HP suggested defaults.
• The "Customised Install" (often called Guided or Assisted install) - has been simplified, updated, and refreshed. This is the full HP interview with a start to finish wizard for deploying HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. It provides the network setup, remote support registration, the systems software, driver and firmware update, the server hardware configuration, RAID configuration, and OS installation. This interview process is also much faster than in the past and includes software driver and firmware updates as part of the interview process
• A much simplified "Manual Install" is provided that automates finding your drivers without you searching the web. 

Once you are ready to install your system software, you'll notice the next difference; with HP Intelligent Provisioning all your needed firmware, drivers, and tools are pre-loaded and ready to deploy at your command. No CD's to load, no software to find, no guesswork. The built-in Smart Update capability recognises if the system software is out-of-date and will automatically download the latest update for you.

Important Note for Windows Server 2012 users - Intelligent Provisioning v1.30 now includes support for Windows Server 2012.

If you need help with any additional details or need a solution then please contact us and we will be happy to help you.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

HP renames storage products

HP have recently changed some of the the names of their storage products.
To keep you up to date with the new names here is a list of what they were called and what they are called now (In bold)

• HP Storageworks LTO Tape Drives - HP StoreEver LTO Tape Drives
• HP Storage Servers (X1000,3000,5000) - HP StoreEasy 1000 / 3830 / 5000
• HP P4000 G2 - HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage

If you need help with any additional details or need a HP server solution then please contact us and we will be happy to help you.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

HP Storage Sales Training Webinar - December 6th

Legacy storage designed 20 years ago cannot adapt to virtual, cloud, and big data demands.

The next era of IT is coming. Hear about the importance of the biggest HP Storage launch in more than a decade. This session will cover game-changing innovations that allow customers to meet any need, at any scale, with effortless simplicity.

Join us on our next channel partner webinar where you will:

• Hear about the ground-breaking news and gain deeper insight into the refreshed Converged Storage portfolio that will be announced at HP Discover
• Find out how to prepare your customers for data growth and new business initiative
• Learn about our vision for a profitable future for HP and our partners 

On the call there will be a team of experts you can ask your questions to.

Please go to this link to register for the event

If you need help with any additional details or need a HP server solution then please contact us and we will be happy to help you.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team