COMMENT SNIA EUROPE


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The demand for education Dear SNS Reader,


I’m pleased to be able to tell you that this year’s SNW Europe yet again well and truly bucked the trend of decreasing attendances at trade shows.


There was a marked increase in the number of unique visitors: more than 1,764 attended over the two days, an increase of 13% on the previous year. Of these delegates, 71% were end users, resellers, systems integrators, analysts or journalists, from over 20 countries. This is a clear indicator of the value that SNW Europe still holds even though other events have been struggling to secure support.


We also had 71 sponsors, an increase of 41% on last year.


To continue with 3 events, SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World, taking place under the banner ‘The Power of 3’, proved once again to be a big draw for sponsors and end users.


I would like to thank each and every person who worked so hard to make this event such a fantastic success, work starts now on next year’s event which will take place on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2011 in Frankfurt.


My views in general, and on the hot topics.


Is the storage industry set for a new boom in demand?


Cloud, still the biggest questions from end users are: What is it?


What will it do for me and my business? Is anyone doing it or is it all talk?


Solid State Are Hard Drives dead in the near future? If not, why not? Is demand increasing?


What benefits is business seeing from implementing SSDs?


FCoE When we will really see it? Why won’t we see all the incompatibility issues with FCoE that we saw in the early days of SANs? Why take the risk of moving from SANs?


DeDuplication DeDupe is great and saving me tons of space, when we will see it in Primary Storage?


Green We need guarantees in writing from vendors on bottom line savings that will be made when we implement product/solution X.


All in all what all the above says is that there is an incredible demand right now from customers to be educated in all the above and more.


Bob Plumridge Chairman SNIA Europe


WIN 2010


WWW.SNSEUROPE.COM


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