Destination.......Microsoft Tech-Ed North America 2010

One of the things that I look forward to every year is attending Microsoft's annual meeting of Tech-Ed North America. Every year I wait in anticipation of the announcement of location and open registration like an eight year old boy on Christmas morning waiting to see if he got the Red Ryder BB gun he wanted. I love this conference because its the only venue like it where I can get information on all of the latest Microsoft and partner solutions, speak with engineers and meet with other folks like myself and see how others are implementing Microsoft solutions in their environments.

This year is a going to be a little different for me as not only will I be attending, but I have been invited to participate as a speaker as well. I will be presenting on vSphere vs. Hyper-V, giving a real world approach to migrating a data center from VMWare to Microsoft. Using my own data center as an example, I will show how we completed this transition successfully and achieved greater VM density then VMWare states is possible and few data centers are achieving. I always look forward to meeting my readers and fellow Hyper-V users, so please reach out to me if you are attending.

I mentioned before that Tech-Ed is also a great forum for meeting the excellent Microsoft partners out there. Some would say that Microsoft make the products, but partners make them work. Now, that is up for interpretation, but you get the point. I posted a blog a little over a week ago about a new Microsoft partner, Virsto Software, that was developing a product to compliment Hyper-V virtualization by significantly improving server provisioning time, I/O performance and managing VM sprawl. Well they have arrived and today they officially announced the launch of their new solution Virsto One. Starting today you can obtain lots of great product information on the Virsto website and even request a 30-day evaluation copy of their software, so you can test it for yourself.

Virsto will be attending and demonstrating their product at many of this years technical shows to include Microsoft Tech-Ed, Microsoft Management Summit and EMC World, so stop by and check these guys out. I would love hear about others experience with the new Virsto One solution, so please let me know what you think.

If you are interested in an eval copy of the Virsto One solution or want more information on any of the conferences I mentioned, then visit the links below.

http://www.virsto.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/events/techednorthamerica/

http://www.mms-2010.com/public/home.aspx

http://www.emcworld.com