EMC Gearing Up for Microsoft Management Summit

Spring is here which means warmer weather (well maybe not for everyone just yet), the start of baseball and the start of something else - Tradeshow Season! This year we will begin with Microsoft's Management Summit (MMS) 2013 which kicks off in just a few short days running April 8^th - 12^th in Las Vegas.

For those of you not familiar with MMS, it is an annual Microsoft tradeshow focused on management, automation, virtualization and orchestration. Many attendees of MMS are focused on software packaging and deployment, virtualization concepts, overall management and orchestration of key datacenter technologies or in other words, many of the technologies found in Microsoft System Center 2012 including Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Operations Manager (SCOM), Configuration Manager (SCCM) and Orchestrator (SCO).

EMC will once again be a key sponsor for MMS showcasing many of our key products and solutions that simplify data and storage management in a Microsoft Datacenter. This year EMC will focus on four major themes for MMS:

• Storage Extensions for Microsoft System Center 2012
  • Storage Reporting and Health Alerts in Operations Manager
  • Logical storage reporting including storage pools, snapshot volumes and storage groups
  • Physical storage reporting such as disk drives, memory, CPU, network and more
  • Orchestration and Automation of EMC Storage
  • System Center Orchestrator Integration Packs
  • Powershell cmdlets for EMC storage including volume, array and snapshot management
• Simplifying Storage Management
  • Free EMC tools for provision storage for Windows
  • Wizard based automation and orchestration for all virtualization platforms
  • Display physical to virtual infrastructure mapping
  • Discover and manage EMC storage natively in Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
• Microsoft Private Cloud Solutions
  • EMC Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Solutions for EMC VNX and VNXe
  • Pre-validated bundles for Microsoft Virtualization
  • Increased virtual performance with EMC storage
  • Microsoft Management Integration
• Protecting Your Private Cloud
  • Instant snapshot backup technology
  • Granular recovery of Hyper-V based files
  • Full virtual level protection
  • Integration with EMC Avamar for virtualization de-duplication

EMC also has a breakout session for attendees on Thursday, April 11^th from 12-1:15 (session WSB-292) on Private Cloud Storage Management Best Practices with Microsoft and EMC.

There will be plenty of prizes and giveaways at the booth and many of EMC's top Microsoft specialists from engineering, solutions, our Microsoft partnership and the field who will be on-site available to meet with customers! If you are attending and want to set up some dedicated time with EMC specialists, just email me at [email protected]!

We look forward to seeing you there and expect to see more updates from the show here on my blog!