Sponsors and Participating Companies                                                               Event Prospectus for Vendors & VARs:  Download the sponsor PDF for more information, the agenda and pricing. Conference High-Level Overview: What? The 1st annual Next Generation Solid State Storage Conference – 2013 When?  August 13-14 in Santa Clara, CA. Who?  SSD/Flash/NAND...

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...

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,...

I thought this was a great article and fits right into the whole mission of our ExecEvents. /greg ____________ Heidi Roizen, Silicon Valley’s legendary networker, would do away with the very term. “What is networking? I hate that term. It’s really about building an interesting collection of people around you,” she said. Here are Heidi Roizen’s “do’s and don’ts” for networking like a pro: Do followup: Enjoyed a...

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...