Kevin Conley from SanDisk is a Keynote Speaker at the 2012 Storage Visions Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SanDisk executive Kevin Conley is a keynote speaker at the eleventh annual Storage Visions Conference.   In addition, Amplidata, Atempo, Candence, Datalight, Millenniata and Xendata join SV 2012 as sponsors and exhibitors.  The conference will be held at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 8 & 9, 2012, put on by the Entertainment Storage Alliance.

Kevin Conley is Senior Vice President and General Manager, Client Storage Solutions at SanDisk.  His keynote talk, given at 1:30 PM on Sunday, January 8, 2012 is titled:  "Fulfilling the Cloud's Promise of Data Ubiquity."  Kevin's talk explores topics vital to the SV 2012 conference theme of "Heavy Storage for Thin Clients."  

Kevin's abstract says, "The Cloud is here, and is becoming an increasingly important part of the lives of consumers and businesses.  But is the Cloud living up to its true potential?  Critical issues such as higher bandwidth, tiny form factors, low cost per GB, minimal power consumption, and reliability must be addressed by the memory industry in order for the Cloud to deliver on its promise of true data ubiquity.  This keynote will highlight the trends in Cloud-based use scenarios from the first to the last node of the network, and underscore how Flash providers can enable the total Cloud promise through optimized data centers and high performance thin clients."  

Kevin Conley is senior vice president and general manager of SanDisk's Client Storage Solutions business, which supplies solid state drives (SSDs) to tablet and ultra-thin notebook computer manufacturers. He oversees the development, marketing and distribution of SanDisk's entire client SSD product portfolio, which ranges from postage stamp-sized embedded SSDs to full-size hard disk drive (HDD) replacements.

Previously, Conley was vice president of engineering at Corsair from 2009 to 2010. He worked for SanDisk from 1993 until 2009, holding positions as vice president of research and development for audio/video products, senior director of product system engineering and director of system engineering and product development.  Conley has also worked as an engineer and an engineering manager in the hard disk drive industry.  He is listed as the inventor or co-inventor on 50 patents in the area of non-volatile memory architecture and management.

Platinum sponsors of SV 2012 are Intel, Micron and SanDisk (also the SV 2012 bag sponsor).  Our Gold and lanyard sponsor is Toshiba.  Silver sponsors include Imation, NVELO, OCZ Technology and Samsung (reception and registration sponsor).  Bronze sponsors include Amplidata, Atempo, Brightsign, Cadence, Calypso Systems, Datalight, SNIA SSSI, Thought Equity Motion and the Trusted Computing Group.  Exhibitors are DigiStore Solutions, Drive Savers, Dynamite Data, ioSafe, Millenniata, Philips LiteOn, SATA-io and Xendata.   Our official News Wire sponsor is PR Newswire (VPO).  

Organization and media sponsors include Active Archive Alliance, Blu-ray Disc Association, Burn World, Computer Outlook, Coughlin Associates, Createasphere, Davis Consulting Asia, Digital Living Room, FCIA, Fierce Cable, HomeToys, IDC, IDEMA, IEEE Consultants Network of Silicon Valley, IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Flash Memory Summit, Media and Entertainment Technology, MediaTech Association, Objective Analysis, Outlook Foundation, Park Associates, PC World, Photo Imaging News, Powersource, PriceG2, Santa Clara Valley IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Chapter, SMPTE, STA, Storage Review, Storage Newsletter, Storagesearch.com, RDC and The Shindler Perspective.

Award submissions are still open (until November 18, 2011) for the prestigious Visionary Awards to be presented at the 2012 Storage Visions Conference at:  http://www.storagevisions.com/2012Awards.htm.

Conference registration is also open at:  http://www.storagevisions.com/2012Register.htm.   Our updated discounted limited room block at the Riviera Hotel, within walking distance of the Las Vegas Convention Center, is still open as well.  Room registration in this block can be done at http://www.storagevisions.com/2012Travel.htm but act fast since space is going quickly.

There are a limited number of sponsorships and exhibit spaces available for the 2012 Storage Visions Conference.  For information on sponsorship and exhibit opportunities at the 2012 conference, fill out the appropriate forms available on the conference web site:  http://www.storagevisions.com/2012SponsorCall.htm. Interested parties can also call Storage Visions at 408-978-8184 or email us at [email protected].  

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

SOURCE 2012 Storage Visions Conference