Storage Networking World Europe : Running under the theme “Information in Motion”

In addition, Vincent Franceschini and Juergen Arnold, Chairmen of SNIA and SNIA Europe respectively, will reflect on the progress in storage management technologies and the development of the storage industry over the past decade, as the association celebrates its tenth anniversary and looks forward to the next ten years. Other keynote speakers at the opening plenary sessions will include Andy Monshaw, General Manager, Storage Systems, IBM Systems and Technology Group, and Steve Duplessie, founder and senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group. Organised by Angel Business Communications and endorsed by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe, SNW Europe has repeatedly attracted delegates from all business sectors including financial, government and retail. The success of the conference is reflected in the level of interest from delegates, sponsors as well as media and analysts. In 2006 over 1,400 people walked through the conference doors over the three days, including 70 journalists and analysts from 13 countries. The sponsor retention rate is also impressive: a total of 18 organisations have repeatedly supported the event since Angel took over the organisational responsibilities and relocated the conference to Frankfurt. Despite the ongoing wave of vendor consolidation, 14 of these companies are already lined up for 2007, representing a retention rate of over 82%. In 2006 alone 16 new sponsors came on board and to date over 30 have committed for this year’s event, four more than at the same time last year.

The popular SNIA Hands-on Lab, a unique environment where end-user delegates can work with industry experts in a classroom setting on some of the latest products and technologies, has been expanded this year to accommodate up to 200 “students” over two and a half days. The number of themes in the lab has also increased to include real-world data classification, storage management, storage virtualisation and IP storage products from a range of sponsoring vendors.

A bout SNW Europe:

Storage Networking World Europe is the largest fully-independent conference where IT managers and professionals can attend SNIA-endorsed education tracks, get hands-on access to a wide range of solutions demonstrations, and mix with industry peers and technology experts who face similar IT storage issues every day. SNW’s unique association with the European storage user community enables us to bring you a conference program that addresses each of the highest priority issues shared among all types of organisation, both large and small, public and private. So whether you are just embarking on your first consolidated storage resource project or are looking at multi-site business continuity issues then SNW Europe 2007 is the place to be. For further information please visit www.snweurope.com.