Storage Decisions San Francisco brings together 200 of your storage peers from the San Francisco bay-area, along with the industry’s top independent experts, analysts and several of the top storage vendors to provide cutting-edge perspective and un-paralleled advice for meeting the storage demands of today’s ever-changing business environment.

This event combines the multi-track content of a full conference with innovative vendor showcases and interactive sessions, resulting in 1 jam-packed day of expert content and quality networking time. Attending is like money in your pocket. Your organization wins and you win. With FREE registration, access to today’s top independent experts and reps from 30+ tech vendors – we’ll save you time, money and countless headaches by fulfilling your research needs in just one place.

Media and entertainment has attracted the interest of a number of storage vendors —both big and small —and spawned unique storage systems and architectures to provide direct attached, local networked and cloud-based storage to serve the various needs of this market. Arguably the "original" big data app, the information processing needs of media and entertainment organizations imposes unique demands on storage systems. Many creative processes are collaborative efforts that can require local simultaneous access and changes in files – which combined with the potential size of media files – place daunting requirements for storage and other studio infrastructure.

Join Storage Decisions for Action! Configuring Storage for Media and Entertainment Applications – the only vendor-neutral event 100% devoted to the media and entertainment industry’s unique data storage needs.

Is software-defined networking (SDN) truly ready to deliver on its much hyped promises? At this exclusive dinner event, virtual networking expert, John Burke of Nemertes Research, will explore the promises of SDN and what role it will play in the future. Discover what you need to build a software-defined network, what is a realistic timeframe for SDN implementation and more. Register today online!

Today’s leaders of business intelligence (BI) and analytics programs are faced with the difficult task of setting the strategy and direction that will deliver optimum business value from their organization’s data resources. Join us at one of our upcoming BI Leadership dinners, led by thought leader Wayne Eckerson, to interact with like-minded BI directors and managers and discuss the latest BI technologies and trends, share ideas and best practices for overcoming common BI challenges, and network with like-minded peers in a relaxed, after-work setting.

More likely than not, your next disaster will be a data disaster. Having spent the past 50 years amassing unmanaged data and deploying it on poorly managed infrastructure, then working to make our data available via impossible-to-secure networks, our irreplaceable asset – our data – is at greater risk in 2013 than at any time in history.

The challenge is to create a data protection strategy that works to reduce risk of catastrophic loss, corruption and disclosure, using the right technologies, and that is sustainable over time.

Brand new for 2013, The New Rules of Backup and Data Protection combines two of our most popular seminars (Next-Gen Backup School & Disaster Recovery for the 21st Century) into one full-day educational experience where attendees can get all the info they need into the tools and best practices that will bring their data backup and disaster recovery plans to the next level.

In response to rising server and desktop virtualization adoption rates – we have developed this seminar to help IT pros like you overcome the many challenges of configuring storage for virtual servers and desktops - and to help make the evaluation and implementation of storage products easier on you and your budget. Our keynote speaker, Howard Marks discusses the complications virtualization presents for storage management and the new processes, tools and technologies you can use to overcome these challenges – and all around enhance the capabilities of virtualization in your IT shop.

Coming to 23 cities across the globe this year, independent industry experts will guide you through proven ways to deal with Windows apps and desktops in a world of tablets, BYO, and web. Spend just a few hours out of the office to take advantage of a live Q&A, peer networking opportunities and tons of valuable information regarding how to effectively manage your users’ desktops in the consumerization era.

During this complimentary half-day event, independent experts, Brian Madden and Jack Madden, examine IT consumerization trends – “BYOD”, mobile device management (MDM), etc. – and explore how technologies like desktop virtualization, MDM software, cloud computing and others can help you regain control of IT. When you leave this exclusive seminar, you’ll understand what the consumerization of IT really is and what steps you need to take to address it in your organization.