Well, it's official - the website just went up. Can't hide it anymore ... I'm delivering a 3-day masterclass on consolidation and virtualization at World of Windows Server in Singapore as well as delivering two sessions (although the current website shows two different, it is going to be a two parter on clustering). I'm very exicted and honored to have been asked to do this.

If you don't live in Singapore or can't get there (hey, what's a few thousand US dollars to take a little excursion to Singapore at the last minute - just ask ask your boss!), I do plan on delivering the masterclass and possibly expanding it to four or five days. Or not. I've spent a lot of time over this past month in content development (official v1 of my Windows Server 2008/SQL Server failover clustering class and this upcoming delivery in Singapore), and am going to assess it after I'm done to see if any tweaks are needed. I can promise you that whether you come to Singapore or see it in a town near you, it'l be a lot of fun, technical content, and information.

Contact me if you want to know more!

Just a heads up for those of you in the Pacific Northwest - I'll be presenting at the SQL Saturday on October 3 which is being held in Redmond on the Microsoft campus. I'll be doing the last talk of the day in the DBA track. Not surprisingly, I'm talking on failover clustering.

Hope to see some of you there!

I'm curious to get your thoughts on whether or not you'd like to see Microsoft implement things so that the entire installation process for a failover cluster can be nearly, or completely, automated. Please take the poll found at this link. I'll share the results.

I'm proud to announce today that Microsoft made me an MVP today for Clustering. I'm very honored to have even been considered.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program.