2013 Storage Visions Conference Shows Why Petabytes are the New Terabytes

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Twelfth Annual Storage Visions Conference held at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 6 & 7, 2013, features insightful keynote and session talks on digital storage technologies as well as media and entertainment applications of storage. These growing applications show why Petabytes are the New Terabytes. More information is available on the conference at www.storagevisions.com.  Conference registration opens at 7:30 AM on January 6, 2013 at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center.

2013 Storage Visions Keynote Speakers include Yoshiaki Shishikui, from NHK Research Laboratories to talk about digital storage requirements for 8K X 4K video at the 2012 Summer Olympics.  Keynote speakers from Intel and SanDisk will explore the role of solid state storage to enable increased flexibility and choices for enterprise and consumer users.

Sessions during the two day conference cover digital storage for professional media and entertainment, digital storage security, storage interface developments (especially based upon PCIe), programming with new storage interfaces, a discussion between professional media and entertainment storage professionals, digital storage for mobile consumer devices, digital storage archiving and content preservation, digital storage in the cloud for enterprises and consumers, digital storage and content delivery and saving and protecting home and small business information.

The 2013 Storage Visions Awards will be announced at the conference during lunch on January 6, 2013.  Awards for visionary uses for storage in professional media and entertainment products as well as visionary companies providing digital storage solutions will be presented with their trophies.  In addition the Art of Storage Award will be presented based upon ease of use and aesthetic features in a digital storage device or system.

SV 2013 sponsors and exhibitors include the following: Active Storage is a Diamond Sponsor. Intel and SanDisk are Platinum Sponsors.  Aspera, Oracle, Smart Storage Systems and Symform are Silver Sponsors. Bronze Sponsors include Amplidata, Cadence, HDS, Marvell, SATA-IO, SNIA SSSI, Skyera, Trusted Computing Group and Toshiba.  Exhibitors are Chelsio, Dot Hill, Drive Savers, FlexStar, IDT, Panasonic, Quotium Technologies, Raidundant, Tegile Systems, Nimble Storage and Xendata.   Samsung is the official Internet Sponsor.  Our official News Wire sponsor is PR Newswire (VPO).  Millenniata is a lunch sponsor and SugarSync is the conference picture-sharing sponsor.  Our many organization and media sponsors can be found on the conference web site.

The Storage Visions Conference is put on by the Entertainment Storage Alliance (www.EntertainmentStorage.Org) and Coughlin Associates (www.tomcoughlin.com).  

SOURCE Entertainment Storage Alliance and Coughlin Associates