Nothing quite like a 10 hour flight in coach for catching up on email and reflecting on one's priorities. Note to self... next time get the laptop bag down from the overhead before the guy on the isle takes his meds and goes off to sleep for the duration...

It was on just such a flight this week, coming back from our EMEA launch of the new HP StorageWorks EVA 4400 that I had the chance to reflect on all of the great responses we received from press, analysts and our customers.  Over the past week we spoke to dozens of analysts and press.  Our booth at the EMEA VMWorld conference was packed all three days with customers and partners wanting to get a look at our new portfolio of MSA and EVA arrays. If that's any indication, we should see some great market traction with our new products.

The new EVA 4400 delivers all of the benefits of previous generations of EVAs; simplified storage management, virtualization of the backend drives, local and remote replication capabilities and the 99.999% availability experienced by over 40,000 existing EVA deployments. The big difference is that this array delivers all of that within less rack space, with less power and for less money than before. More for less... That sounds pretty good to most people we talk to.

For those of you wondering how I got to the laptop to capture these thoughts... Well, let's just say that there are advantages to being smaller and agile... Kind of like our new EVA :-)