HP introduces first ever HP Education NonStop Training Centre in Beirut to benefit organizations in the Middle East

As part of its ongoing commitment to helping customers transform their businesses, HP has announced its plans to open the HP Education NonStop Training Centre in Beirut Lebanon, to help IT professionals build competencies to achieve peak productivity in today's evolving information technology environment.
"At HP, we realize that knowledge represents one of the most valuable and powerful assets in today's economy. Effective management and diffusion of this knowledge is essential if an organization is to succeed. Future projections indicate that the Middle East is going to witness a major boom in IT education. We are optimistic about these positive future trends and believe that the NonStop Training Centre will greatly benefit organizations in the region," said Juggie Govender, Education Business Manager, HP Middle East.
"HP Education NonStop Training Centre in Beirut will provide the most comprehensive training available in HP NonStop technology along with other HP courses which forms part of the education portfolio. HP Education Services (HPES), which is HP's fastest-growing business unit, is a global leader in the development and implementation of innovative training and education services to businesses. Building on 25 years experience, HPES Learning Solutions consulting team works closely with customers to develop, deliver and manage business-based education solutions, which translate into measurable business benefits, with a clear focus on ROI.
"HPES plays a key role in helping customers use information technology to transform their business and enable measurable business value from their IT investments. The growth of HPES in the UAE market has been substantial where we are rated as the number one international training vendor. HPES expects similar growth in the Lebanon education market as the training center will offer NonStop trainings for the entire Middle East," he added.
NonStop solutions are the pinnacle of mission-critical computing as it powers the most demanding applications for the adaptive enterprise in real time. HP NonStop servers have been the backbone for businesses that run the world's most demanding computing environments online all the time - from stock exchanges, the financial industry, banks, electronic fund transfer networks, retail point-of-sale networks, telecommunications companies and E911 systems, to today's online travel systems and the world's largest email system.
HP NonStop servers 'own' the business-critical infrastructure fuelling the vast majority of the world's electronic commerce, by managing environments that are transaction intensive as well as experience unpredictable growth and demand the highest levels of availability. It can truly be relied upon to keep businesses running throughout with data protection and 100 percent application availability.
HP's education services are the clear choice for professional development for NonStop systems, offering:
*       Experienced and best-in-the-field HP instructors
*       Comprehensive student materials
*       State-of-the-art classroom facilities
*       Hands-on practice
*       Focus on job-specific skills
*       More than 120 locations worldwide
*       Customised on-site delivery
*       HP IT Resource Centre for online training: http://education.itrc.hp.com
The NonStop architecture delivers a high level of performance over other platforms because its underlying design is based on an open, standards-based, tightly integrated hardware and software stack built for high-volume transaction processing, parallelism and mixed workloads.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2005, HP revenue totaled $83.3 billion. More information about HP (NYSE, Nasdaq: 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, Jeddah, Khobar, Cairo and Ramallah 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.