By Ian Selway,  Worldwide StorageWorks Solution Manager

Heading off to the airport at San Francisco to begin my trip to Microsoft TechEd in Berlin..... 20 years after the fall of wall and right after this week's superb U2 concert, it'll be interesting to visit a city with such rich history. Oh and of course there's TechEd as well. Really looking forward to seeing some great HP storage demonstrations around Exchange server 2010 and our direct attached storage (DAS) offering. There's also going to be a really cool capability with our storage and the new Live Migration capability in Windows Server 2008 R2, though Calvin talked about that a bit in his previous post. I really think visitors will be amazed when they see what HP StorageWorks can offer with Hyper-V. Now all that's between me and Berlin, is the small matter of a 15 hour flight and layover......

So if you're at TechEd, be sure to come by and say hello at the HP booth (# P1), or on Wednesday 11th we'll be at the Microsoft Virtualization Solutions Kiosk.

Couple of ways to learn more about HP StorageWorks at TechEd:

• SVR212 Deploying Microsoft Applications on HP Converge Infrastructure: A Look under the Covers. Wed 11th Room:  New York 2 - Hall 7-1a at 17:30
• SVR213 Best Practices to Implement Windows Server 2008 R2 on HP ProLiant Servers. Monday 9th London 1 - Hall 7-1b at 13:30 
• HP Cluster Extension for EVA  - MS clustering and Hyper-V Live Migration extended to Storage on BladeSystem. In the demo theatre Thurs 12th. (this will be cool!!!)

 And of course look out for a post or two coming from the show. 

(Editor's note: Ian is now at TechEd - we hope to hear more from him this week).