In December 2010, Gartner released its latest Magic Quadrant for IT Event Correlation and Analysis (ECA).

Microsoft was very pleased to see that in consideration of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, Gartner placed Microsoft in the Leader Quadrant of its ECA MQ.

To read Gartner’s ECA Magic Quadrant report, click here.

Last week, Microsoft held TechReady 12 for our internal sales and field teams.  This was an exciting event because we gave them a sneak peak at the very cool technologies and sessions that we will delivering publicly at MMS 2011 next month.   For the products that I am blessed to support, we have a phenomenal lineup of sessions.  Here are just a few that I hope you will check out:

• Operations Manager 2012: Overview
• Operations Manager 2012: Setup and Configuration
• Operations Manager 2012: Network Monitoring
• Operations Manager 2012: Management Pack Readiness & Authoring
• Operations Manager 2012: Dashboards and Authoring

Come join us at Microsoft Management Summit 2011 … March 21-25

• AVIcode : Overview of Application Monitoring
• AVIcode : Diagnosing Application Problems
• AVIcode : Setup and Deploy Intercept Studio
• AVIcode and OpsMgr in the Real World

• Protecting the Datacenter with DPM 2010
• Protecting Client Data with DPM 2010
• Help, the Datacenter is down – Let’s Restore !
• A First Look at DPM 2012

It’s going to be an awesome week.   Hope to see you there !

As always, thanks for reading (and watching).