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...

Check back soon for updates to the ExecEvent schedule for 2013. Events and ideas include: Tape Summit U.S. 2013  (Targeted for June 4-5 in Denver/Boulder, CO, in conjunction with the Spring LTO Consortium meeting) Next-Gen Object Storage Summit 2013 (Targeted for June 18-19 in San Francisco, next to GigaOm Structure) Flash/SSD Summit 2013 (Targeted for August 13-14 in Santa Clara, next to the Flash Memory Summit) China Technologies Summit...

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...

Thank you to all our 2013 delegates and participating vendors (EMC Isilon, HP, IBM, Exablox, Scality, Cleversafe, Quantum, Amazon, Intel, Ctera, Maginatics, DDN, Amplidata, Microsoft and NEC).  Great turnout, wonderful discussions.  Now it’s time to turn the discussions into actions ! _______________________ ” Object Store has lots of promise but is very much in need of some direction on topics like APIs, management,...

Our tape summit has proved to be quite successful.  So much so that we are adding a European Tape Summit for the Fall of 2012. This “memo” below is a direct result of the Tape Summit 2012 and was created by all of the leading tape vendors as a manifesto about the strength of the tape industry.  Way to go tape vendors ! /greg 2012 Tape Market State of the Union Memo On May 16, 2012 representatives of tape storage providers BDT,...