Storage Decisions is a

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for

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professionals in the

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. Produced by

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, Storage Decisions has been held multiple times per year in the

since 2001. TechTarget also presents a series one one-day seminars under the "Storage Decisions" name in the United States and

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. Storage Decisions events are oriented towards end users of data storage equipment and software. Presentations are given by independent analysts, end users, and storage experts. One differentiator for Storage Decisions events is the reduced access given to sponsoring product vendors: They are restricted from giving or attending presentations and are allowed to interact with the audience only during a short

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session each day. Despite the restrictions, the Storage Decisions events are popular with product vendors. Recent event sponsors include BlueArc,

Dell Dell Inc. is an American technology company that develops, sells, repairs, and supports personal computers (PCs), Server (computing), servers, data storage devices, network switches, software, computer peripherals including printers and webcam ...

, EMC, HP,

IBM International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...

, and Symantec.

Notable launches

* 2003 -

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

Windows Storage Server 2003,

Cisco Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, s ...

MDS 9100 and SN5428

Fibre Channel Fibre Channel (FC) is a high-speed data transfer protocol providing in-order, lossless delivery of raw block data. Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to Server (computing), servers in storage area networks (SAN) in ...

switches * 2004 -

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StorEdge 5210 and 6920, Cisco MDS 92161i and MDS 9000 Multiprotocol Services Module,

Overland Storage Overland Storage Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sphere 3D Corp. It has acquired Tandberg Data shortly before being acquired by Sphere 3D itself. The two subsidiaries were later rebranded under the common Overland-Tandberg brand. History ...

REO 9000 * 2005 - Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2006, Symantec

Backup Exec Veritas Backup Exec is a data protection software product designed for customers with mixed physical and virtual environments, and who are moving to public cloud services. Supported platforms include VMware and Hyper-V X86 virtualization, virtual ...

10D * 2010 - Cirtas Systems

References

External links

Official site
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