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storage basics one

profiles & perspectives

what storage is

hp's storage business

service & support

storage basics two

principles & tactics

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practice

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course description

Improving the Total Customer Experience with HP Storage, specifically with high-end products like the XPs is important to HP's growing storage business. Compared with other devices that HP supports, these products require a certain level of care and approach to customers that is qualitatively different than we've used before.

Presented in the following three modules, this course provides the background, specific information, and practice opportunities to support you in adopting this new approach.
storage basics one--an introduction to storage basics (web), for customer engineers, hardware support specialists, account support engineers, response center engineers
storage basics two--customer interactions and service procedures (web) for customer engineers, hardware support specialists, account support engineers, response center engineers
storage basics three--coaching session (live), for those engineers for whom storage will be a significant part of their responsibility
course objectives

storage basics one--an introduction to storage basics

support engineers will be able to…
Define storage and data availability from the customer's point of view..
Describe customers' motivation for choosing HP for their storage solutions.
Explain how HP's plan for the storage business impacts their role as support engineers.
Recognize which key customer attitudes they should encourage and state their role in instilling customer confidence when working with customers.
Provide the rationale for following procedures exactly when performing upgrades.

storage basics two--customer interactions and service procedures

Prerequisite: storage basics one. support engineers will be able to…
Recognize appropriate and inappropriate customer interactions related to the maintenance vs. repair approaches to providing service.
Proactively engage HP resources to meet customer needs ® Engage in the necessary planning and preparation before working on the equipment.
Discriminate between following procedures exactly and taking shortcuts when performing upgrades.

storage basics three--coaching session

Prerequisites: storage basics one and two. support engineers will be able to…
Demonstrate the appropriate "maintenance" communication style to use with enterprise array customers.
Defend following upgrade procedures without taking shortcuts.
quotes
"Storage is becoming the absolute center of IT infrastructure."

Carl Howe, Forrester Research






glossary
SAN: Storage Area Network-a high availability, high performance, dedicated storage network that connects servers and storage in a secure, flexible, and scalable architecture

SAM: Storage Area Management-"the centralized management of resources and data across a storage domain, providing shared services to a group of servers and their applications" (as defined by the Gartner Group)

Federated storage: physically separate domain(s), types, and vendors of networked storage devices that operate as one logical resource

Fsam: (pronounced "f-sam") a naturally scalable environment of federated storage resources. When fully implemented, Fsam will enable organizations to use any of their storage resources to manage unpredictable capacity demand and staffing needs while sustaining uninterrupted business operations.


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