HP ISS Fact of the week by Paul Kember (HP)

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

Westcoast Event : The Importance of Education Expo – 25th April 2012

Westcoast are holding their second multi-vendor education event on 25th April 2012 focused around ‘The Importance of Education’. The event will be held at the British Library, London Kings Cross, and is expected to attract over 200 resellers who will have the chance to engage with key vendors as well as a selection of end users.

After the success of the 2011 education event in Oxford, Westcoast is excited about holding an even bigger and better show, in order to help resellers grow their education business. Resellers will have the opportunity to engage with education vendors and Westcoast, allow attendees to view the latest product technologies, and discover the latest marketing offerings available from vendors. In addition, those who attend will also have the chance to book 1 to 1 sessions with key speakers, from Westcoast, Samsung, Toshiba, Apple, HP and Microsoft.


Key Highlights

• Understand which solutions are right for your education customers
• Oportunities to learn from various vendor and end user speakers
• See new and emerging technologies in the vendor village
• Think differently and keep your business ahead of the rest
• Book 1-2-1 vendor sessions
• Specific for sales people and key business decision makers

View the agenda and register at www.westcoast.co.uk/education

If you have any questions or need any help with HP servers or storage for your educational customers then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

April 2012 - 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 HP have a selection of great offers available including 50% Cash Back on HP P2000 G3 plus 50% on additional HDD’s, a great 'buy one get one free' offer on qualifying memory units when purchased with a qualifying HP ProLiant server.

A Free HP ProLiant MicroServer when purchasing HP Windows SBS Essentials 2011 and a Free Wireless Access Point when you buy our Wireless Starter Kit.

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

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

Learn more about HP Service Offerings with HP’s Technology Services Clinic

Would you like to learn more about HP service offerings?
HP is running an event called HP Technology Services Clinic. Its aim is to provide you with a clear overview of HP's key Technology Services.

The Clinic will include sessions on five areas of the portfolio, each being repeated on the hour starting at 10.00am. Numbers are be limited at each session, so please register now to select your preferred time slot per portfolio topic. The last session will begin at 3.00pm. Lunch will be available at 1.00pm where the portfolio team will be able to answer questions specific to your customers.

The sessions will be as follows:

Session 1: Mission Critical - Proactive Care
Proactive Care is our new service created to address the changing needs of our customers. Understand what it comprises of; where it sits within the Mission Critical portfolio and the benefits of selling the service

Session 2: Third Party Maintenance
Understand why you would even consider using a Third Party Maintainer to support HP products; and understand as an OEM, how HP supports its own Technology

Session 3: HP Networking
An open Q&A session for anybody requiring more information on selling HP support services associated with HP Networking

Session 4: Lifecycle Services - Data Centre Services
Review of key services within the Lifecycle services portfolio to understand how they complement the Partners existing offerings

Session 5: Customer Asset Programme
Understand what the Programme is and how it will benefit your customers.

When and where is the TS Clinic to be held?
The TS Clinic will be held on Thursday 19th April at 9.30am.
The event will be held at the following address:

Harrison House,
1040 Arlington Business Park,
Theale,
Reading RG7 4SA

Spaces are limited so please click here to register your attendance for one of HP's TS Clinics.

In the meantime if you have any questions with regards to HP services or have any opportunities which need to have HP support/service included then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

HP ISS Fact of the week by Paul Kember (HP)

If you have any questions or need any help with HP servers or storage then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

Watch the new HP Microsoft Coffee Coaching videos for ProLiant Gen8 – the world’s most sufficient server

HP has just released 35 new videos focused on the new ProLiant Gen8 ProActive Insight Architecture. These new videos provide short informative information about the benefits and value of the world’s most self-sufficient servers, the new HP ProLiant Gen8 and will be highly valuable for you and our partner community to digest all the new innovation coming from our ProActive Insight Architecture.



We would highly encourage you to view and propagate the videos by topic category below, read about the videos in HP’s Microsoft Coffee Coaching blog, or follow the video releases via Facebook, Linked-in or Twitter.

In addition, during March and April, Westcoast_UK will post a number of #CoffeeCoaching tweets and each month will be giving away a £20 Costa Coffee Gift Card to a randomly selected follower who retweets our #CoffeeCoaching tweet. So tweet away for your chance to win!

If you need help with HP Gen8 servers or have questions surrounding a server opportunity then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team 

HP ISS Fact of the week by Paul Kember (HP)

If you have any questions or need any help with HP servers or storage then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

March 2012 - 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 HP have a selection of great offers available including Buy one get one free on qualifying memory units when purchased in conjunction with a qualifying HP ProLiant G7.

Other offers throughout March include a Free HP ProLiant MicroServer when purchasing HP Windows SBS Essentials 2011, the popular £100 cash back on the HP ProLiant MicroServer and 50% off all qualifying HP Tape drives.

All of these offers and more are available through our Business Partners so read on to find out how much you can save on the right solutions for you.

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

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

HP & Microsoft Coffee Coaching - Microsoft OS on HP reseller option kit.

Coffee Coaching is an online community where SMB resellers can learn from and interact with experts from HP & Microsoft to become more knowledgeable about key products and technologies. The videos are brief; 5-10 minute topic specific training from an industry expert and each provides actionable information to the viewer.



To view the series of Coffee Coaching videos visit the Coffee Coaching YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/user/CoffeeCoaching.

If you can’t find what you are looking for then HP & Microsoft would like to hear from you about what technologies and products you want to understand better. You can post your suggestions on a dedicated Facebook page, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube or post your comment on HP’s new blog.

During March and April, Westcoast_UK will post a number of #CoffeeCoaching tweets and each month will be giving away a £20 Costa Coffee Gift Card to a randomly selected follower who retweets our #CoffeeCoaching tweet. So tweet away for your chance to win!

If you need help with HP ROK (reseller option kits) or have questions surrounding a software opportunity then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

Change your SAN Complexity to Simplicity with the HP P2000 G3 Fibre Channel SAN Starter Kit.

Storage Administrators are called “SAN or Storage Experts” for a reason. Deploying, managing, and maintaining traditional Fibre Channel SANs is a very specialised “art” that requires significant experience in understanding Fibre Channel protocol, zoning concepts, and SAN best practises. Similarly, these “Storage Experts” have many of the same challenges when it comes to provisioning storage resources and allocating those resources to the server systems that utilise them.

In smaller companies, there are usually none of these “experts” available and therefore deploying modern storage and storage networks has been out of the realm of their IT possibilities.

That is of course, until now. HP have launched the P2000 G3 FC DC SMB SAN Starter Kit, HP has changed SAN complexity to SAN simplicity with an SMB solution that takes significant complexity out of deploying and managing a modern storage network, which is easy to order and provides a scalable yet affordable solution for small and mid-sized customers.

The P2000 Starter kit (Part number AP847A) comes with Dual controllers, Dual power supplies, 2 x Qlogic SN6000 FC Switches, Qlogic 81Q HBA cards, Cables and SFP's, so really all you need to do is add the drives.

For more information on how this solution reduces complexity the please read the technical white paper below.

If you need help with providing a SAN solution or have questions surrounding a storage opportunity then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

Westcoast’s new Smart Networking Tool - HP vs Cisco

Click on above Image to access the tool

You may remember that back in October 2011 we launched the Westcoast Smart networking tool. Well a few months on I would like to report that a number our resellers are using this tool with great results!! With this useful tool you can take a Cisco solution and turn it into a HP based solution.

So if you are a HP networking reseller and have not taken advantage of this tool then please take this opportunity to do so.

What are the benefits of using this tool?

• 48 Hour SLA – Upload your network designs or kit lists to the tool and our technical experts will endeavour to send your quote in under 48 hours*
• Pricing advantage – On average a HP solution is 20% cheaper than the equivalent Cisco offering
• Increased Margin – Qualifying deals will benefit from at least 10% additional margin**

*Timescale may increase depending on workload
**Specific criteria must be met as per HP’s partner guidelines

All you need to do is simply upload your requirement to the portal and receive your competitive quotation back within 48 hours.

If you need help with the tool, or have questions surrounding a networking opportunity then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team

HP ISS Fact of the week by Paul Kember (HP)

I thought I would share Paul Kembers ISS facts of the week with you all, these facts are really good snippets of information that have proven to be very useful.

If you have any questions or need any help with HP servers or storage then please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Technical ISS Solutions Team