The HP Enterprise Storage & Servers (ESS) Customer Experience Center (CEC) offers a hands-on environment for you to discover the business value of our comprehensive ESS portfolio. CEC briefings provide a forum to discuss HP’s technology direction and key strategies, build closer business relationships and explore customer’s ideas about how HP can deliver targeted enterprise and small-medium business solutions to better meet your specific needs.

The CEC is located in Houston, Texas at HP’s main campus facilities in building CCM7. It is the home of Industry Standard Servers, BladeSystem, Networking and ESS Software businesses, as well as select StorageWorks functions.

This state-of-the-art facility has an experienced staff to ensure that customer briefings are productive and worthwhile investments. Targeted briefings help you to gain a better understanding of the ESS portfolio, enabling you to solve real-world business and technology challenges. For the CEC, it’s all about collaboration.

**The HP ESS CEC is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified .

The CEC team structures customized briefings exploring strategic technology directions and business technology solutions tailored to your needs. HP experts offer focused solution and product specific dialogue, hands-on demos, tours of development, design, and competitive-focused labs, and unique customer experiences.

Here are some of the labs, tours and demonstrations available at the Houston center:

• Americas Solution Center
• BladeSystem Demo Lab
• Enterprise Design and Innovation Center
• Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions Lab
• Environmental Test Lab
• Factory Express
• Performance Optimized Data Center (POD)
• StorageWorks Technical Marketing Lab

The CEC team will work with your account team to plan a briefing that meets your company's business objectives and exceeds expectations while taking advantage of the numerous resources the HP Houston Campus has to offer.