Hewlett Packard has opened in Bulgaria its largest training facility in Southeastern Europe, the Hewlitt Packard Education Center, the company said in a statement.

The new training facility is on the ground floor of the HP Business Centre in the Kambanite business centre. It has six halls, three of which have been equipped with the latest state of the art HP technology, and the other three are designated for lectures and conferences.

The programmes on offer are HP-UX, HP StorageWorks, HP ProLiant & HP BladeSystem, Vmware, Linux, ITIL/ITSM, Project Management, Business Analysis and Microsoft Training.

Trainees will be given HP Education Certificate diplomas, guaranteeing the quality of education received. The lecturers are both foreign and Bulgarian and the education process "maintains the highest educational standards developed over the years by HP Education Programme, in cooperation with the best technologies around the world", the statement said.

The services of the education centre can be used by both HP partners as well as any specialist or company interested.