What?  The 1st annual Next Generation Solid State Storage Conference – 2013 Who?  SSD/Flash/NAND storage companies,  ecosystem players, and press, industry analysts, bloggers, influencers.  All in one room at one time. Why?  Even “experts” in solid state storage technology agree…the technology, the industry and the messaging are misunderstood.  This summit is designed to promote the entire solid state storage industry...

Location and Date TBD – Please check back soon. Adding to the success of past Tape Summits, this year we will be adding cloud and big data components to the mix.  Tape is making huge inroads into both cloud and big data environments  yet many end-users may not be aware of such.  We will discuss where tape fits within these areas, how they compliment each other and real world use cases.  By combining these technologies into one...

” Object Store has lots of promise but is very much in need of some direction on topics like APIs, management, integration with existing software, data protection, etc. “   From Clod Barrera, Chief Strategy Officer for IBM Storage (April 2013) Object Storage Vendors Unite !  Because united we can all win, divided we fall. Featured Speaker – Andrew Riechman, Marketing Lead for Enterprise, Amazon Web Services Major Sponsor...

I thought this article was great….and fits in perfectly with the purpose of the ExecEvent.  The author is Laura Schwartz, and I love her book title “Eat, Drink and Succeed.” Of particular note, here are some quotes I enjoyed: “…you don’t have to be in your office to create the next big success.  In fact, I firmly believe we ar most open to new ideas, and often come up with our best ideas, at annual...