60th Edition of IT Press Tour in Silicon Valley, California

The IT Press Tour, a media event launched in June 2010, announced participating companies for the 60th edition organized on the week of January 27th in Silicon Valley, CA.

During this edition dedicated to IT infrastructure, cloud, networking, data management and storage, big data and analytics plus AI as it is everywhere today, these organizations will be met: Aquila Clouds, CloudFabrix, Crystal DB, Hammerspace, Komprise, Panzura, TrueNAS and Volumez.

“2024 was a fantastic year with 7 editions, 51 companies, with 34 new ones, met during 53 sessions, presented by 98 CxO for a total of 2300+ articles. This is huge,” said Philippe Nicolas, creator of The IT Press Tour. “We start 2025 with this coming 60th edition, which confirms the role and place of the tour in the industry. We really create a category that proves its value to vendors and media. We’ll reach new record with 329 distinct companies for 570 sessions,” concluded Nicolas.

With quotes from some participating companies for this coming edition:

• ​Shailesh Manjrekar, Chief Marketing Officer, CloudFabrix
  “It won’t be unreasonable to call out 2024 as the “year of Agentic AI”. CloudFabrix sees Agents as a means to transform its vision of an Autonomous Enterprise, starting with ITOps. By leveraging Data and AI fabric, ITOps teams can achieve faster insights, maintain data integrity, and quickly adapt to changing IT needs, ultimately improving operational efficiency and service reliability. We have made strides executing on this vision and are looking forward to sharing our innovations, customer case studies and partnerships around The Fabrix.AI Platform, with the best IT press team in the industry during the 60th IT Press Tour.”

• Molly Presley, SVP Global Marketing, Hammerspace
  “The future of GPU computing demands data orchestration that overcomes data silos and puts data in motion—seamlessly bridging file and object workloads at global scale. Hammerspace is leading the charge, proving that performance and data movement can coexist. As we expand globally and accelerate into 2025, we’re excited to share how with The IT Press Tour and their audience how we’re redefining what’s possible for AI and HPC workloads everywhere.”

• Krishna Subramanian, COO, President and Cofounder, Komprise
  “At the upcoming IT Press Tour, we’re looking forward to discussing the latest needs and trends in unstructured data management. The year 2025 will be a year of transition for IT organizations: preparing data estates for AI is a leading priority. At the same time, IT leaders need to keep a close eye on the threats from ransomware and other malicious actors while optimizing their costs across storage and backups. Komprise is uniquely positioned for these evolving requirements with our platform for unstructured data analytics, migration, tiering, AI data workflows, AI governance and sensitive data detection.”

• Petra Davidson, Global Head of Marketing, Panzura
  “The modern enterprise has to navigate an ever-more treacherous data landscape. The explosion of unstructured data, evolving threats like ransomware, the expanding complexity of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and AI-driven disruption mean they need data resiliency, command and control, and immediacy like never before. Panzura is delighted to join The IT Press Tour again this year to unveil our latest platform innovations in file management and data services which transcend the limitations of ‘what if?’ and empower our customers to ask, ‘why not?’. At Panzura, it’s about more than helping them overcome obstacles — it’s about building a foundation on which their business can thrive with unprecedented simplicity and agility.”

• Brett Davis, Executive Vice President, TrueNAS (iXsystems)
  “With TrueNAS fresh off of back-to-back Customer Choice Awards from Gartner Peer Insights in North America, we’re excited to rejoin The IT Press Tour to showcase some of the ways more than half of the Fortune 500 have transformed their storage economics – achieving data resilience, scalability, and control – all without the constraints of vendor lock-in.”

• John Blumenthal, Chief Product and Business Officer, Volumez
  “GPUs are one of the world’s most precious resources today. Yet utilization is typically below 40%, creating immense waste and inefficiencies. The IT Press Tour is providing us the forum to discuss how Volumez helps organizations with AI/ML initiatives maximize data pipeline throughput and automation to maximize GPU utilization — accelerating training, improving model accuracy, and reducing operational costs.”