Storage Decisions New York 2009

Important note: Registration for the New York City date of the Storage Decisions Conference is currently closed. However, please feel free to apply for complimentary admission at one of our upcoming Storage Decisions events in your area or for the Storage Decisions Summit in San Francisco on November 17 at the Marriott San Francisco Airport Hotel.

On Tuesday, September 22, the Storage Decisions conference kicks off at the Hilton New York. This is *the* east coast storage conference for IT professionals. An unrivaled technical educational and peer networking event, Storage Decisions is free for qualified IT professionals.

But attendance is limited to just 500 delegates. Registration is now open, we encourage you to apply early to avoid a wait-list situation.

2009: Strategies to Survive and Thrive

As we approach the end of 2009, the global economy is showing signs of turnaround. And as always, business in New York City will lead the way. Storage pros at leading organizations in leading industries must be on the cutting edge of technology and must stay ahead of the game. So while budgets and resources remain lean, you need to be innovative to both survive the short-term and be prepared for your organization’s impending strategic ramp up and increased demands.

So your 2010 storage plan has strategic and tactical implications for your organization’s success. The decisions you make now will have a profound affect – good or bad – in 2010 and beyond.

Purposely timed in September, Storage Decisions New York is your one-stop shop for annual planning:

• You get independent expert advice on building-in operational efficiencies in increasingly complex storage networks.
• You get access to technology experts and demos from 50+ storage technology providers – so you can do your 2010 budget planning due diligence in 2 days.
• Get the skinny on hot newer technologies like data deduplication, solid state disks, data replication, storage virtualization and more.

Survey Says…

This spring, several hundred 2008 Storage Decisions delegates participated in a survey that covered a broad range of topics. Here are the 3 overwhelming takeaways from that survey, directly told to us by a majority of your peers:

1. You buy a lot of storage. And we mean a whole lot. The folks who completed the survey averaged almost 5 storage technology purchases in 30 different storage product segments – just in the months since returning from the 2008 conference!

2. You are a team. Only 7% of respondents said that storage purchase decisions are made by an individual. Storage is getting bigger and more complex and it is a team effort.

3. You can’t waste time or money. Training and travel budgets are down substantially in 2009.

So attending Storage Decisions is an easy choice for any IT pro serious about storage.

1. You’ll get tons of valuable information on the technologies and products you’re considering for purchase.

2. You’re encouraged to bring the team and cover our 5 targeted conference tracks – tailored to your areas of interest and level of expertise.

3. And Storage Decisions – while delivering thousands of dollars of value – is FREE for qualified delegates.

Meet Your Peers

Each and every Storage Decisions delegate is an IT professional with storage responsibility at a non-storage-vendor organization. So you can be confident that the person next to you in our sessions is a true peer. Based on the specialized nature of your work, our delegates rave about the opportunity to talk shop with other who face the same challenges and solve the same problems. And the organizations represented are a who’s who of leaders in a variety of industries.

Here is just a sample of organizations that attended in 2008: AllianceBernstein, Ambac Financial Group, Inc., Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP, Apollo Group, AT&T, Atlantic Health Systems, Avaya, Avon Products, Inc., Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Barnes and Noble, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, BlackRock, Bloomberg, Cablevision Systems Corp., Carfax, Catholic Health System, CBS, Citigroup, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Columbia University, Consolidated Edison of NY, Cornell University, Daiwa Securities America Inc., Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Deutsche Bank, Emerging Health Information Technology, Empire State Development, Fidelity Investments, GE Global Research, Harris, HBO, Hearst Business Publishing Inc., HSBC, Hughes Hubbard and Reed LLP, Jack Schwartz Shoes Inc., Jennison Associates, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Liz Claiborne, Inc., Lord Abbett, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Natixis Capital Markets, New York Blood Center, New York Housing Authority, New York University, NYC Dept. of Corrections, NYSE, Oppenheimer Funds, PB Capital Corporation, Perot Systems, Piper Jaffray & Company, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Princeton University, Prudential, Purdue Pharma, Queens Library, Ropes & Gray LLP, Seiko Corp., Siemens, Southpole/Wicked Fashions, Inc., Sprint, T. Rowe Price, TD Ameritrade, Temple University, The City Of New York – FISA, The Hartford Insurance Group, The MITRE Corporation, The New York Times, TJX, Thomas Weisel Partners, Thomson Reuters, TIAA-CREF, Tyco Electronics, Inc., UBS, Unilever, United Nations, US Army, US Bank, US Treasury, Verizon, Viacom, Visiting Nurse Service of NY, Vonage, Wachovia, WebMD, Wilmington Trust, WorldNow and many more.

If you’re responsible for your organization's data storage, you cannot afford to miss this conference. Submit your delegate application today!

Bring the Team

With 6 distinct session tracks, Storage Decisions addresses the information needs of each of the folks who have a hand in managing your storage operations. Be sure to tell your peers about Storage Decisions! You can attend one track while your colleagues attend another and compare notes when you get back to the office.