The event will kick off with Ed Walsh, CEO of Storwize (bought by IBM), former CEO of Virtual Iron (bought by Oracle) and former CEO of Avamar (bought by EMC). Advice and stories from a guy who's been there and done that.
Mr Ed Bugnion, VP and CTO for Cisco's Server, Access and Virtualization Technology Group (and co-founder of VMware no less...) will lead a discussion around Cisco's data center plans, partnerships and technology.
Two major system and/or storage vendor keynotes to be announced soon.
Venture Capital
VC Workshop - Tips for Creating the Perfect Pitch - hosted by Charles Curran (Valhalla) and Jeffrey Lee (Mission Ventures)
Rookie versus Pro - Examples of good and bad VC pitches. Presented by Charles Curran (Valhalla) and Peter Bell (Highland Capital)
VC Speed Dating - 5 minutes with each of 5 VCs (30 vendor companies total may participate - companies are chosen via lottery if necessary). Participating VC firms include:
Valhalla Partners
Highland Capital Partners
Intel Capital
Jafco Ventures
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Analyst & Press Panel
Up to 15 vendors get a specific 20 minute time slot to present to panel of analysts. 10 minutes of Q&A to follow
Other attendees are welcome to attend as well, but presentation should be geared towards panelists.
Analysts and Press Include:
George Crump - Storage Switzerland
Jerome Wendt - DCIG
Deni Connor - SSG Now
Dave Simpson- Editor, InfoStor.com
Rich Castagna - Editorial Director, Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com
Kim Wang - GM and Sr. Analyst, ESG (Sino)
Marc Staimer - Dragon Slayer Consulting
Others TBD
Guaranteed Blogging
Storage Switzerland and DCIG will guaranty they will blog about the presenting company shortly after the event (As long as these analysts get to tell the vendor about their services.)
Marketing and BD Forums
Marketing Roundtable - Co-hosted by Brad O'Neill (CEO of TechValidate), Asim Zaheer (VP Marketing for Hitachi Data Systems) and Natalie Hahn O'Flaherty (VP Marketing at Glasshouse)
Marketing and Social Media Forum - Hosted by Walt Kasha
BD Roundtable - Hosted by George Symons, VP of BD for Xiotech, Rick Cameron, VP of BD for GlassHouse
Major Players (over $500M in revenue)
CA
Citrix Systems, Inc.
EMC
F5 Networks
Hitatchi Data Systems
Intel Corp.
NetApp
Quantum Corp.
Hoping To Be A Major Player
3PAR
7MPS
Arvidson+Wagnisse
Atempo
Avere Systems
Bocada
Bridgehead Software
Cambridge Consulting
Channel Chargers
DataCore Software
DataGlobal
Datastor
Digitiliti
DeepStorage.net
Emulex
Enthiosys
ESILO
Exar Corporation
Executive Destinations
Falconstor
Farallon Research
GlassHouse
IceWEB
Integrated Software Sales & Marketing
KerStor
LaunchPad Europe
NetEx Software
Nirvanix
NovaStor
Oxygen Cloud Services
Permabit
ProStor Systems
RAI Consulting
Rouleau Search Associates
SANpulse
SEPATON
Seven Ten Storage
Silver Peak
Storwize
TechTarget
TechValidate
Vault Solutions, LLC
Unitrends
Viridity Software
Walden Technology Partners
Wikibon Project
Xiotech
Financial & Money Related Players
America's Growth Capital
Citigroup
Hapoalim Securities
Highland Capital Partners
Northside Advisors LLC
Valhalla Partners
SASI
Ridge Partners LLC
Press, PR, & Analysts
Bhava Communications
Business Finance Magazine
DeepStorage.net
DCIG
Evaluator Group
Forrester Research
Gestalt IT
IDC
InfoStor
JPR Communications
MMI Communications
Network World
SearchStorage.com
Storage Strategies NOW
Storage Switzerland
The Taneja Group
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