Kyle Ohme — In the life of a dot com

Day one of Storage Decisions 2007 Chicago is almost over and the show is going well.

The weather in Chicago is rainy but the information is flowing at Storage Decisions this year. The presentations this year seem to be focused around backups/DR and compliancy issues.

The show has gotten bigger and venders have come and gone, however I am a little amazed not to see anyone here representing de-dupe other than FalconStor. It also seems that we are missing players such as BlueArc and Quantum from the mixjust to name a few.
I had several conversations on the floor tonight with some great vendors releasing new precuts and up and coming solutions. We tended to do our introductions today and will follow up with the vendors that we want more face time with on Wednesdayas we are expecting the floor to be a little quieter.

This event offers a great balance of vendor time and industry knowledge. We often comment that its well worth the event to meet and talk to all of the vendors in one place.

BlueArc did get back to me and explained that they would have loved to be at the show but something prevented them from making this particular show.  Thanks for the response and we hope to see you @ the next show!

[tags] Storage Decisions, Storage, Data centers, Chicago, IBM, FalconStor [/tags]

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