HP Critical Advantage (CA) Service is a comprehensive support solution designed to help businesses maximize their return on investment in complex infrastructure that supports critical applications. CA offers an integrated set of proactive & reactive services designed to help you improve performance, availability, & functional use of your technology. CA
Includes:: proactive & reactive support for the products in your IT environment. CA is purchased & entitled on a per-product basis, & you have the flexibility of choosing the appropriate hardware reactive support level, depending on your needs. In addition, each CA service level provides reactive software support & updates for HP software & the third-party software you've purchased from HP. CA provides an assigned account team composed of highly trained IT professionals who form close working relationships with designated members of your IT management staff. The account team develops a clear understanding of your IT environment, your IT goals, & your overall business objectives. A mutually agreed-upon support strategy is then designed & documented in an account support plan. The account team meets with you annually to discuss progress against the plan & to update the plan in order to track continued alignment with your business goals. In addition, your assigned account team is equipped with HP developed remote support technologies & tools to help you minimize downtime & improve productivity. In a complex environment, many components need to work seamlessly together. CA has been specifically designed for this purpose. It provides an end-to-end environment support solution covering servers, operating systems, hypervisors, storage, storage area networks (SANs), & networks. CA provides proactive deliverables across the components in the infrastructure supported by CA to help you achieve maximum utilization, uptime, & use of the technology by addressing the most common challenges in manag