11 December 2007 - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - HP Middle East today announced its resellers training programme on 'Consolidating IT Infrastructure' which took place lately in Jordan.

HP Certified Professionals gathered at the Dead Sea, Jordan to further their learning about storage and server consolidation academy over a three day period. HP pre-sales engineers attending the sessions focused on solutions that enable customers to provide the best IT service possible to their businesses - while at the same time cutting budgets to enable them to drive their businesses forward.

The HP Enterprise Storage & Servers group offers integrated IT consolidation solutions with technologies and methodologies that help organizations standardize and simplify their IT environments.

"The aim of the training was to help HP resellers use the technical knowledge they already have to be better able to offer solution based pre-sales consultation to customers. As always HP invests in its channel to help partners provide the best service to our clients, specifically with this academy which is aimed at building technical skills across our partner community to deliver storage and server infrastructure management," commented Ashraf Helmy, Storage Business Unit Manager for the Middle East.

He continued, "Training sessions such as this will continue in the future to ensure all our partners benefits from learning how to get the best out of HP products and services as will continue to support our channel to enhance and develop its resources and remain best in the industry."

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About HP
HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world's largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $104.3 billion for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.

About HP Middle East
HP is the largest technology and solutions provider in the Middle East with 670 employees and subsidiaries in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Cairo, Ramallah, Oman and 2 service Joint Ventures in Kuwait and Bahrain servicing the GCC, Egypt and the Levant. HP has been present in the Middle East since 1968 and opened its first regional office in 1994. HP Middle East is the market leader for enterprise, small and medium business and consumer technology products and offers a large portfolio of solutions and services in various business domains.

More information about HP in the Middle East is available at www.hp.com/me

For more information, please contact:
Lana El Husseini
HP Middle East
Tel: + 971 4 391 6000
Email: Lana.el-husseini@hp.com

Lisa Welsh
Impact Porter Novelli for HP
Tel: +971 4 3304030
Email: l.welsh@ipn.ae

HewlettæPackard Middle East
PO Box 17295
Dubai Internet City
Dubai
Website: www.hp.com/me


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