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Power of three returns to Frankfurt in October
August 2010 by Marc Jacob
Following the resounding success in 2009, SNIA Europe and Angel Business Communications today announced the return of their triumvirate of conferences under the banner ‘The Power of 3’. SNW Europe co-located with Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World will be held at Congress Frankfurt on 26th and 27th October 2010 and will once again offer a wide range of educational conference content and a comprehensive expo floor featuring the leading IT vendors operating in the fast-growing markets of data management and storage; server, desktop and storage virtualisation and data centre technologies such as cloud services and solutions. Now in its second year as a “three in one” event, this unmissable appointment with the future of IT promises to be bigger and better than last year, with a number of new companies joining the list of sponsors and others returning to the show after a year or two away.
“The level of interest and support for last year’s conferences shows that expanding SNW Europe to include two new parallel events was a wise decision”, said Paul Trowbridge, marketing director for the three events. “This year, we are pleased that our concept has once again attracted so many high-calibre companies who see the conferences as an ideal opportunity to meet key decision makers in their target markets.”
With presentations, case studies and a vast array of SNIA tutorials covering storage, virtualisation, cloud computing, security, FCoE, Solid State Storage and much more, the three co-located events are aimed at a broad spectrum of end user IT professionals as well as resellers, consultants and distributors focusing on IT.
“SNW Europe stands out in the IT events calendar as being extremely well attended, a frenzy of activity not just in the exhibition area but also in the presentation and tutorial sessions. As a sales and networking event, it cannot be beaten. For end users and the channel it is quite simply the best place to learn not just about storage but also about virtualisation and the cloud. The decision to expand the focus of the event was a smart move,” said Joao Silva, VP EMEA Sales at 5-year running sponsor 3PAR.
“This is our seventh year at SNW Europe,” said Jason Phippen, senior director of marketing at Emulex. “We have been coming back year after year because the conference continues to evolve and the quality of the delegates also continues to improve. For Emulex SNW Europe is an unmissable appointment in the business calendar.”
“The data protection industry keeps evolving and by mirroring these changes in its conference and expo SNW Europe has helped us stay closer to our end users,” said Christine Bachmayer, Senior Manager EMEA Marketing at Quantum. “The organisers’ decision to co-locate Virtualization World and Datacenter Technologies has ensured that we have the opportunity to meet with all the professionals that have a role in protecting today’s corporate data.”
SNW Europe, together with Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World, set new records in 2009 with over 1,500 unique visitors from over 20 countries, an increase of more than 10% on the 2008 figures. Over 70% of the attendees were end-users, resellers, systems integrators or members of the international press and analyst communities.
Delegates can pre-register for the events at www.snweurope.net, www.virtualizationworld.net or www.datacentertechnologies.net with the following promo code: GS2010. Sponsors interested in participating should contact Carly Stephens at Angel Business Communications (cs@angelbcl.co.uk). Press, bloggers and analyst enquiries should be directed to Federica Monsone at A3 Communications (fred.monsone@a3communications.co.uk)
About SNW Europe
Now in its seventh year, SNW 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 and data management 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 is the place to be. For further information please visit www.snweurope.net
About Virtualization World
Virtualization World takes a focussed look at the continuing development of IT virtualization standards and solutions and in particular the emergence of Cloud computing services. The conference and exhibition offer IT professionals a fantastic platform to learn and develop their knowledge of these key technologies in a vendor-independent environment supported by SNIA Europe, the impartial voice of the industry. Over two days, the conference addresses the hottest topics and trends through jargon-free vendor-neutral tutorials and real-life case studies from the desktop through to server and storage virtualization solutions and beyond into the cloud. For further information please visit www.virtualizationworld.net
About Datacenter Technologies
Datacenter Technologies brings a focussed conference program and exhibition to the heart of the European market that addresses the technology standards and solutions that are key to the development and deployment of an effective 21st century data center. Delivered with the support of the leading suppliers and SNIA Europe, the impartial voice of the industry, Datacenter Technologies sets out to educate and inform delegates and visitors on the possibilities in making your datacenter strategy meet all the current economic, environmental and of course business demands you face today. For further information please visit www.datacentertechnologies.net
