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Host Computer Services Ltd
HOST Computer Services Ltd
Setting standards in computer solutions training since 1991
Customer Newsletter #2, 8 March 2008

Welcome to issue 2 of the HOST Customer Newsletter

HOST Computer Services has been delivering quality hardware and software training to computer industry professionals for over 15 years. Our newsletters provide information about HOST and some of our latest educational offerings.


In this issue

  • New Storage Products from HP
  • HP Integrity Systems - support training
  • Career Transition Partnership

  • Networking Workshop


  • New Storage Products from HP

    At HOST we pride ourselves on keeping up to date with the latest product changes. It will therefore be no surprise that we are announcing the availability of training on the recently released StorageWorks products from Hewlett-Packard - namely the Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) model 4400 and the Modular Smart Array (MSA) model 2000. These products, of course, will become assimilated into existing courses - but for those who have attended EVA and MSA training in the past we are offering update courses as follows:

    EVA4400 - a 2 day update course:
    V302 HP EVA4400 Installation and Configuration. This course is scheduled from April onwards.

    MSA2000 - a one day update course:
    S631 HP StorageWorks MSA2000 Service and Support. This course is scheduled from July onwards.

    Both of these are intended to cover the needs of HP Partners and those delivering Warranty/Maintenance services on these products. Please click the links above to view the detailed course descriptions.

    We will also be providing update training to cover the new EVA6100. Please contact us for further information.


    HP Integrity Systems - support training

    With recent purchases, we now have representative and up to date models of the full Entry-Level and Mid-Range HP Integrity systems. This allows us to offer break-fix support level training on all Integrity products.

    There are two courses; 38315 Servicing Entry Level Integrity Servers and 25479 Servicing HP Integrity Mid-Range Servers.

    Both of these courses are 4 days in length and are now on our schedules. For those delegates who have extensive experience of the HP 9000 (rpxxxx) servers, we offer a "fast-track" option that combines these courses into one week.


    Career Transition Partnership

    We are pleased to announce our appointment as a Preferred Supplier of training to the Career Transition Partnership (CTP). The CTP is the resettlement and placement program by which persons leaving the Armed Forces are settled into the civilian workplace. Service leavers wishing to work in the civilian IT industry will be attending training at HOST to enhance their IT technical skills.

    Many employers do look very positively at service leavers when filling vacancies. If you are one of these employers, then HOST offers you the service of introducing such people to you. Let us know the type(s) of person(s) you are looking for - and with their permission we will introduce suitable candidates to you as we meet them. Having made the introduction it would be up to you to progress it and we will step aside. There are no charges for this service.


    Networking Workshop

    In our experience we believe that there is a requirement for refresher training in networked environments. We intend to provide a three day workshop to refresh networking skills. We see many engineers who have been trained in the past on networks - and work in environments where they are not free to practice their skills except in emergency situations. Consequently their skills go "stale". This 3 day course will encourage engineers to practice their skills in a safe environment and keep them sharp and effective.

    The course is currently under development and a draft data sheet is available from us on request.


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    What we do …
  • Our focus is to train Customer Service, Presales and Operations staff on hardware and software solutions.



  • We have alliances with the majority of the market leaders including IBM, HP and SUN.



  • Our capability covers desktop to enterprise datacentre for servers, storage, networking, printers and other peripherals.



  • We provide training on current and legacy products spanning over two decades, In some product areas we are the only provider worldwide.



  • We deliver the vendor certification courses on behalf of IBM and HP.



  • In addition to providing scheduled training we can offer bespoke and customised courses tailored to your specific requirements.



  • Our commitment to quality ..
  • We do not believe in a virtualised training environment. All courses are instructor led using real systems, providing hands on training.


  • All our instructors are career instructors. They are permanent staff with many years experience in a support engineering background. This strategy enables us to deliver a quality training experience to all our customers.



  • Scheduled courses are never cancelled due to low numbers.


  • Our residential training centre is strategically placed in the middle of the UK for ease of access. We also have the capability to deliver this training worldwide.



  • We invite our past delegates to join and participate in our Forum where they can discuss technical matters both with our instructors and amongst themselves.



  • We are committed to ISO 9001:2000, and believe this is important in today's IT business.





























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