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Multi-vendor support

StorageTek offers maintenance and support for non-StorageTek hardware and software for Open Systems and mainframe environments through its Enterprise Support Services. You have a single point of accountability for issue resolution while maintaining ownership of your IT assets. StorageTek service professionals, with years of experiencing working with heterogeneous environments, work under predefined service levels of your choosing to bring support issues to resolution. We support all major hardware vendors and many software applications partners. StorageTek is also a Brocade Qualified Support Partner and Professional Services Partner.

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Features | Benefits | Supported vendor hardware and software

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Support plans vary based on your equipment, availability requirements, and budget. Standard features include:

  • 24 x 365 onsite support.
  • 24 x 365 support from the StorageTek Remote Resolution Center, which provides incident management, diagnostics and problem resolution.
  • Hardware and software installations and upgrades.
  • Equipment relocations.
  • Microcode feature and functionality upgrades.
  • Full entitlement to software fixes and patches.
  • Access to vendors’ support organizations for issue escalation, at our expense.

Elite support
Two-hour target response time from the time of dispatch for onsite help from a trained StorageTek service professional on a 24 x 7 x 365 basis. *

Select support
Four-hour target response time from the time of dispatch for onsite help from a trained StorageTek service professional Monday-Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. local time, excluding nationally recognized holidays. *

Next day support
Onsite help from a trained StorageTek service professional Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. excluding nationally recognized holidays.

Standard support
In addition to onsite support, the Elite, Select, and Next Day service offerings include standard support like 24 x 7 x 365 telephone support, single source for multi-vendor product engineering changes, and spare parts support.


Benefits Top
  • Quick problem resolution
  • StorageTek owns the service issue from initial call through resolution, so you don’t waste precious time sorting out which vendor to call.
  • Reduce management burden
  • Reduce the complexity inherent in heterogeneous environments by supplementing your staff resources with StorageTek’s seasoned service professionals, averaging over 15 years of heterogeneous storage experience.
  • Increase system availability
  • StorageTek provides the onsite expertise needed to help keep your systems up and running under defined service levels that you choose.
  • Increase contribution to the bottom line
  • With a single source for problem resolution, you’ll realize significant savings on maintenance costs while reducing downtime.

Supported vendor hardware and software Top
  • Brocade
  • VERITAS
  • IBM
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Compaq
  • EMC
  • Sun
  • NCR

Additional supported vendors available upon request.

*StorageTek Global Services does not provide Enterprise Support Services for
IBM, Hewlett Packard, Compaq, EMC, SUN or NCR products as an affiliate of those companies.


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Related Information
Global Services Overview collateral (pdf 90K, Aug 2004)
Global Services Overview Flash Presentation
Enterprise Support Services (PDF Jun 2004)
Multi-vendor support for VERITAS collateral (PDF, Jun 2004)
Multi-vendor support for HP products collateral (PDF, Jun 2004)
Multi-vendor support for Sun products collateral (PDF, Jun 2004)
Multi-vendor support for IBM products collateral (PDF, Jun 2004)
Multi-vendor support for EMC products collateral (PDF, Jun 2004)
A single point of accountability for your Open Systems environment technical brief (PDF, Apr 2004)