By Calvin Zito

Last week I had heard that the HP StorageWorks EVA was selected as a finalist at Microsoft Tech Ed 2009 for the category of best hardware, networking, or storage.  I just learned that the EVA has won!  (See this article on IT Windows Pro website).  Congratulations to the EVA team.

My question after seeing this was what is the criteria for this award.  Here's what I found out from the program overview:

These awards recognize the innovative products and services showcased at Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2009. All Microsoft partners exhibiting or sponsoring at Tech·Ed North America 2009 were eligible to submit nominations for their products/services. The winners were selected by a judging panel of editors from Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, and are evaluated based on each finalist's strategic importance, competitive advantage, and value to customers.

Since we're on the subject of the EVA and Microsoft, I wanted to follow-up on yesterday's post about the EVA in VMware environments, today focusing on the EVA in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment.  This video has our Senior Vice President and General Manager of HP StorageWorks Dave Roberson and Jim Schwartz and Jeff Woolsey of Microsoft talking about how the StorageWorks EVA storage solution delivers best-in-class performance when customers use Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology.

A great day for the HP StorageWorks EVA! 

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