New webinar: Competitive landscape for HP AppSystems for Microsoft
April 16, 2012: You’re invited to attend a one-hour webinar on the competitive landscape for HP AppSystems for Microsoft on April 26, 2012. HP channel partners in AMS/EMEA can enroll here; HP channel partners in APJ can enroll here.
Best Practices for Backup and Recovery of Exchange 2010 using the E5000 Messaging System
Thursday, April 19th 2012 at 11:00 AM Eastern/8:00 AM Pacific
March 30, 2012: In this one hour presentation we discuss the best practices for the backup and recovery of the HP E5000 Messaging System and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. The content of this lecture is derived from backup and recovery test results and evaluations of E5000 system utilizing Windows Server Backup and also Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM). This presentation starts off with a brief introduction and familiarization with the HP E5000 Messaging System with emphasis on hardware fault tolerance and high availability. Next we identify the new backup and recovery innovations with Microsoft Exchange 2010 and information on how to develop a data protection strategy that encompasses all Exchange Server Roles and utilizes the inherent data protection features of Exchange 2010 such as deleted items and deleted Mailbox retention, Recovery Databases, and Database Availability Groups (DAGs). Finally, we discuss backup and recovery test findings. This includes a brief introduction to the test environment and system configurations that will lead into performance results and observations. The presentation concludes with the topic of our best practice recommendations and lessons learned followed up by a question and answer period.
To register for the replay of this webinar please click here.
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Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 support ending
March 28, 2012: Now is the time to upgrade your customers to Windows® 7 and Office 2010, as support for Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 ends April 8. Windows 7 and Office 2010 offer more flexibility to be more productive, while increasing operational efficiency through improved PC security and management. It also enables your customers to take advantage of the latest technology trends, such as virtualization and the cloud. Download the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.
One-click resource: Channels Kit for Data Management
March 15, 2012:
- Need a solution brief to customize and give to a customer?
- Or need a quick reference card with key sales information for a data management solution?
- Or you’ve booked a customer meeting and need a presentation?
Now you can find all these resources with one click on the new Converged Applications SQL Channel Kit. Designed for our skilled joint HP/Microsoft channel partners, this kit simplifies and unifies all the resource available to you. It’s simple. All the pieces to the data management solutions are in one place, ready for download.
No need to search all over. HP and Microsoft helps you start selling data management solutions today. Check out the Channel Kit under "To Partner Resources" on the "Data Management" solutions tab.
E5000 Messaging System – Virtual Simulator Training
February 24, 2012: Be sure to view the replay of the webcast that will provide you with training on how to use the new Messaging System Virtual Simulator Tool. The HP E5000 Virtual Simulator is designed to provide HP Sales, Microsoft Sales and Channel partners a sales tool that will enable you to deliver to end users an out of the box experience on the E5000 Messaging System but on a level without requiring hardware. It allows users to experience the deployment experience without the lengthy time usually required and provides special comments of "behind the scene" actions. It can be used or training purposes, or for demos to prospective customers.
This training session is available for on demand viewing by clicking here.
HP – Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Premium Launch
August 30, 2011: Microsoft® Windows® MultiPoint Server (WMS) 2011is a simple to manage and use specialty Windows operating system that enables multi-user, Remote Desktop Services (RDS) scenarios. Unlike other solutions on the market, WMS is built on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Remote Desktop Services, so it can run Windows applications. Customers can obtain support through Microsoft or HP, and access to the operating system’s full capabilities and the latest updates is simplified with an easy Administrator console.
Today, HP announces ProLiant entry level platform support for WMS 2011. In addition, HP is now offering the HP OEM Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Premium edition Reseller Option Kit – see www.hp.com/go/multipoint and www.hp.com/go/rok. For the specific HP ProLiant server support for WMS 2011 see www.hp.com/go/wincert.
WMS comes in Standard and Premium editions as well as a variety of license types: Academic, Volume and OEM. Microsoft offers a planning guide for WMS, for more details see Microsoft’s – Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 Planning Guide.
Report from WPC 2011
July 14, 2011: WPC provided a great avenue for HP to promote to our channel partners the HP-Microsoft Coffee Coaching program. Partners could learn as well as participate in the program. During the event, HP offered an opportunity for our partners to film their story on how HP and Microsoft solutions help to resolve customer issues and help them grow their business. A total of 55 videos were shot for future posting on the HP-Microsoft YouTube channel – www.youtube.com/coffeecoaching.
Introducing the new HP E5000 Exchange Appliance
July 8, 2011: A new Coffee Coaching video for partners features HP’s Mike Rolinson who does a nice job presenting an overview to the E5000 Exchange Appliance. It’s great tool for channel partners sales teams to quickly understand the key value messages they need to sell the HP E5000 Exchange Appliance.
HP Business Decision Appliance: Training for Channel Partners
July 7, 2011: Explore the hardware and software features of the new HP Business Decision Appliance a joint HP/Microsoft solution. Built on proven reference architectures and the powerful Microsoft application platform, the Business Decision Appliance simplifies and accelerates deployment of your business intelligence system. It includes a balanced stack of hardware, as well as Microsoft software that have been integrated, tested and validated in Microsoft and HP labs. It includes Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, SharePoint Server 2010, PowerPivot add-ins.
For more information about the course objectives and to register please visit www.hp.com/partners/us.
Opportunity Knocks: Increase your customer base with new preconfigured fast-sale solutions from HP and Microsoft
April 5, 2011: Now available straight from the Americas Partner Conference, click here to view this comprehensive HP/Microsoft Infra2Apps Solutions presentation that was presented to partners by Jack Baratta, Director, HP Microsoft Sales for Americas. The presentation describes the Infa2Apps fast-sale solution market, customer benefits, partner opportunity and how to get started.
Five New Sales, Pre-Sales Training Courses for HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange
March 9, 2011: HP has designed five new courses to partner sales and pre-sales professionals:
- Selling HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange 2010
- E5000 Technical Selling, Architecture and Configuration
- Increase your customer base with new preconfigured fast-sale solutions from HP and Microsoft: Introducing the HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange
- Positioning & Selling the E5000 Messaging System
- Joint HP and Microsoft Converged Applications Introduction Webinar
Click here for full details.
E5000 Messaging System is Now Available
March 1, 2011: Today HP officially launched the E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft Exchange 2010. This was in follow up to the public announcement made by HP and Microsoft on Jan 19th. Since then we have been busy wrapping up the training for our field and partners. With all of the pieces in place, we’re happy to announce that the E5000 is now available!
The E5000 Messaging System is a preferred solution for Exchange 2010, engineered by both HP and Microsoft. We’ve included everything that you need for a messaging system—servers, storage, networking and deployment tools and the best practices for Exchange from our joint engineering team.
For details click here. There are also a number of new sales tools, collateral and assets to assist you in your sales efforts that can be found on the following websites:
HP Advances Scalable Cloud Computing with Integration of 3PAR Utility Storage
New storage offerings optimize cloud service delivery and simplify data management
March 1, 2011: HP today announced the integration of 3PAR Utility Storage across the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to simplify scalable cloud computing, and introduced new storage solutions for virtualization and data deduplication. This integration enables clients to optimize cloud delivery with features like automated storage tiering to improve performance, and thin storage offerings to eliminate over-provisioning.
The combination also helps clients seeking to consolidate storage hardware and respond to explosive data growth to address both of these challenges with converged block-and-file storage on a single storage array. HP also has simplified data management with solutions built on converged storage, server and networking platforms to provide clients with unified management and a lower total cost of ownership.
As part of the news, HP announced the immediate availability of the HP E5000 Messaging System for Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010, which integrates servers, storage, operating system software and Exchange 2010 configuration wizards into a single, converged solution. This enables IT to speed deployment by 75 percent and support users with larger mailboxes at a lower cost per user.
Read the full news release here. More information is available in the HP online press kit here.
Here’s how to access: HP Microsoft Converged Applications Sales and Pre-Sales Training
HP Solutions and Alliances Sales Training
February 10, 2011: HP and Microsoft Hyper-V, SQL and Exchange are three of the hottest technologies in the market today. HP and Microsoft are delivering a new class of solutions which fully integrate and optimize these technologies with HP Converged Infrastructure to simplify deployment, management and support. This session covers these preconfigured application-centric solutions, including customer challenges and the role for Infrastructure-to-Applications; details of the Converged Application Foundation, BI, Data Management and Warehousing and Enterprise Messaging solution components; HP's services portfolio; and the role for HP valued channel partners.
You will learn about these preconfigured application-centric solutions designed to deliver quantifiable value to our enterprise and mid-market customers. We will share details about our virtualization and management, business intelligence, data management and messaging appliance offerings. To learn more click here for details.
HP Storage Sales and Presales Training
February 10, 2011: Get equipped to speak effectively to your customers about new products and solutions from HP Storage product experts, and get your questions answered! Join us to learn about new HP Storage products, solutions and competitive strategies to help you close deals in March and beyond. To learn more click here for details.
HP announces Hybrid Delivery Cloud solutions
January 26, 2011: Today, HP announced a new set of Hybrid Delivery Cloud solutions for enterprises and governments. The PartnerONE community is core to our cloud strategy and our ability to offer a rich suite of solutions to clients.
Along with today’s announcement, we are pleased to announce new partner offerings across the HP Cloud framework of BUILDE, CONSUME, MANAGE/SECURE and TRANSFORM:
- BUILD: HP CloudSystem is based on industry-leading HP Converged Infrastructure and Cloud Service Automation software, and is an ideal solution for enterprise and service provider clients looking to build, manage and consume hybrid cloud services.
- CONSUME: HP Enterprise Cloud Services—Compute, makes bundles of server, storage, network, and security available to be consumed as a service.
- MANAGE AND SECURE: HP Cloud Service Automation (CSA) is a core management engine for private and public cloud environments—it provides intelligent automation for building and managing cloud services. It is unique because it allows clients to manage across heterogeneous environments. Authorized partners can resell CSA representing a key opportunity for partners to assist their clients as they deploy cloud solutions.
- TRANSFORM: HP Cloud Discovery Workshop helps enterprises effectively strategize their applications portfolio in the context of Hybrid Delivery Cloud. This workshop is available for partners to resell to their clients.
Listen to a special podcast that describes HP’s Cloud strategy and recently announced offerings, read today’s press release, or visit www.hp.com/go/hybriddelivery to access customer brochures and descriptions of newly announced offerings.
HP and Microsoft Announce Portfolio of New Converged Application Solutions
January 19, 2011: HP and Microsoft announced a portfolio of new converged application solutions that fuse applications, infrastructure and productivity tools into a single system. Building on the HP and Microsoft Infra2Apps partnership, announced in 2010, the new converged application solutions deliver application services such as business intelligence, data warehousing, online transaction processing and messaging. This new portfolio of integrated products truly delivers on the Converged Infrastructure promise and helps organizations optimize employee productivity and decision making, while simplifying the delivery of applications for IT.
To learn more about the announcement read the what's new section on hp.com or read the complete press release.
Please visit the solutions page for more information on messaging, business intelligence, enterpise data warehouse.
New year, new growth for Coffee Coaching program
Inviting more SMB IT resellers in more languages to join in
January 15th, 2011: The Coffee Coaching, HP and Microsoft social media marketing program launched in March 2010 and we are proud to say that this successful program has had great acceptance from our audience—SMB IT resellers. The Coffee Coaching community continues to grow. We currently have 3200 Facebook Likes and 36,715 YouTube Sessions Views.
Our mission at Coffee Coaching is to help micro-resellers stay on top of current technologies. If you’re already in the habit of checking your Facebook page over coffee in the morning, now you can use it to stay on top of your business as well.
We’ve created a place where people can easily find video overviews of products and technologies, information on opportunities for prospecting, interact with Microsoft and HP product managers, and talk with peers in the Coffee Coaching community.
We have a collection of short videos on all of the Windows Server products and HP hardware solutions. Topics such as how to take advantage of virtualization, migrate customers, economize with smart buys and more.
Due to the success and acceptance of the program, internationalization was imminent. That's why, on December 8, 2010, Coffee Coaching hosted the announcement of Microsoft SBS 2011. And at the same time, we announced the release of Coffee Coaching blogs in four different languages: German, French, Italian and Spanish.
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Next-generation HP Virtualization Smart Bundles with Hyper-V
November 23rd, 2010: HP Virtualization Smart Bundles include everything you need to get started with virtualization—from Microsoft Windows® Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V software to the next generation of HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem, HP Insight software, HP Insight with Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010, HP StorageWorks SANs, HP Virtual Connect technology, and HP Networking solutions. The new Smart Bundles feature:
- New Entry Rack High Availability Hyper-V bundle with P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance
- Upgraded Scalable Blades High Availability Hyper-V bundle with G7 Servers & BladeSystem c7000 enclosure
- HP Insight with Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 in selected Hyper-V configurations
See the entire lineup at http://www.hp.com/go/virtkit.
HP is a Platinum Sponsor at Microsoft Tech•Ed 2010 in Berlin
Join HP's international team of technical experts at the HP booth and breakout sessions
November 1st, 2010: HP is a Platinum Sponsor at Microsoft Tech•Ed 2010 in Berlin, Microsoft’s premier technical education event providing the most comprehensive technical training on Microsoft’s suite of products, technologies, solutions and services. HP will have a number of demos at the HP booth across the Infra2Apps topics as well as three sessions dedicated to simplified messaging, private cloud solutions and business intelligence and data warehouse solutions.
Are you an FLP partner attending Tech•Ed?
If yes, then FLP partners are invited to join us on on November 9th for an inspiring networking evening event to meet and mingle with the other FLP partners and enjoy the breath-taking view of Berlin at night.
Places available for this event are limited so we advise you to register in advance. Please e-mail ess.partner.marketing@hp.com to receive an invitation or visit the HP booth P2 at Microsoft Tech•Ed to secure your ticket!
Please register for Microsoft Tech•Ed today and use the following code DLSPPHP to claim your 300 euro discount. Register today.
Future Directions for the HP-Microsoft Infra2Apps Solutions
September 10th, 2010: Gain insights into the future directions that joint HP-Microsoft solutions will take by viewing these two videos:
HP-Microsoft Infrastructure to Applications Partnership – Watch this presentation, by Radhesh Balakrishan and Tamer Farag from Microsoft and Brad Kirby from HP, discussing joint HP and Microsoft solutions including: Integrated Virtualization and Management, Data Warehousing and SQL Server, as well as the Exchange Server 2010 Optimized solution.
Infra2Apps Virtualization and Management Solutions for the Mid-Market Customer – Watch this presentation by Paul Gavin from HP and David Mills from Microsoft talking about future directions for Microsoft joint solutions for midmarket customers, centering on HP and Microsoft Virtualization solutions.
Simplifying Virtualization – Solutions for Midsize Business.
September 10th, 2010: Just as HP is addressing the end-to-end IT priorities and business needs of small businesses, we continue to address the top priorities of midsize businesses and today, together with Microsoft, we are announcing a set of offerings that dramatically simplify the virtualization journey.
We are simplifying virtualization for customers:
- Who have already virtualized their IT infrastructure and need a unified management solution.
- HP is announcing a truly Unified Management console for Midsize Businesses, combining the best of Microsoft’s System Center Essentials 2010 and HP’s Insight Control server and storage infrastructure management software.
- Who are looking to virtualize their current infrastructure but don’t have budget for external SAN infrastructure.
- HP simplifies the move to shared storage by enabling customers to gain the benefits of a Storage Area Network (SAN)—without requiring the purchase of a physical SAN infrastructure and the additional resources required to run an external SAN.
- Who are looking to refresh their IT infrastructure using virtualization.
- HP helps simplify the move to a virtualized environment by bringing all the right pieces together. HP is extending our pre-configured Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization smart bundles. These bundles consist of everything the customer needs. They are validated and optimized reference configurations—built with the right combination of HP ProLiant servers, internal or external storage, such as the P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance or P4000 G2 SAN Solution, Unified Management with SCE2010 from HP, and optional HP networking components to create a complete core virtualization environment.
For more information go to www.hp.com/go/whatsnewforsmb.
