46th Edition of The IT Press Tour Back to California

The IT Press Tour, a media event launched in June 2010, announced participating companies for the 46th edition organized on October 10-14 in California.

It will be dedicated to IT infrastructure, data management and storage, and will be the opportunity to meet 10 companies: AuriStor, Data Dynamics, GRAID Technology, HYCU, N-able, Panzura, Pavilion Data, Protocol Labs, ScaleFlux and SmartIOPS.

​“We’re back to the US after a very successful edition in Paris a few weeks ago. In two weeks in Silicon Valley, we’ll visit some established companies and more recent ones and for some of them, it will be their first appearance at the tour like GRAID, Protocol Labs, ScaleFlux or SmartIOPS, Again a very good week in perspective for the vendors and for the press”, said Philippe Nicolas, creator of The IT Press Tour.

​Quotes from some participating companies:

• Leander Yu, Founder and CEO, GRAID Technology
  “Emergence of new applications, as well as rapidly shifting business environments and technological progress require companies to make complex decisions for their data centers. Award-winning SupremeRAID by GRAID Technology delivers sophisticated software-composed RAID data protection with record-breaking performance speeds and exceptional ROI for demanding workloads. We are pleased to have the opportunity to present at the 46th Annual IT Press Tour in California to showcase our cutting-edge innovation in the data storage and protection domain.” 

• Simon Taylor, Founder and CEO, HYCU
  “ITPT has always been a must attend event for the team at HYCU. Philippe and the journalists that join him are industry savvy, ask provocative questions and make the interactive presentation session all the more valuable. ITPT really is a unique, industry opportunity to meet with leading journalists authentically and meaningfully. HYCU has been in hypergrowth mode since raising $140 million in venture funding in a little over a year and adding a number of new solutions to our growing multi-cloud data protection and ransomware protection offerings. Each ITPT event provides our team with the perfect opportunity to share significant updates across our solutions portfolio and helps extend our voice to companies that need solutions that help make a significant difference as they continue on their multi-cloud journey.” 

• Stefan Voss, VP of Product Management, N-able
  “We are really pleased to be a part of the IT Press Tour again, it gives us a great opportunity to have important conversations with industry journalists around our focus on managed services, our cloud-first, SaaS-based platform, and our cloud-first approach to data protection-as-a-service. MSPs and internal IT teams are looking for simple, reliable solutions to help protect against SaaS data loss, and we’re looking forward to showing how we deliver that protection, while reducing the cost and complexity in this new era of data protection—without sacrificing speed or reliability.” 

• Jill Stelfox, CEO, Panzura
  “As the enterprise hybrid multi-cloud data management leader, we are thrilled to participate in the IT Press Tour 2022 in Silicon Valley and to share our remarkable refounding story, and why our trailblazing technology and clear vision for a new kind of company have resulted in skyrocketing hypergrowth. Our mission is to help the Global 2000 companies and their CIOs store, manage, and protect their data from ransomware and other cyber threats through immutable storage and make it easier to manage at scale through the use of AI/ML data analytics.” 

• Dario Zamarian, CEO, Pavilion Data
  “We are pleased to welcome Philippe and the IT Press Tour journalists to Pavilion’s headquarters office in Silicon Valley. We look forward to highlighting the unmatched capabilities and performance that Pavilion has always offered to customers, along with our great progress toward helping customers offload their analytics with our data acceleration platform.”

• Stefaan Vervaet, Head of Ecosystem Growth, Protocol Labs
  “Protocol Labs is pleased to announce that we will be participating in the next IT Press Tour. We will be showcasing Filecoin and how we are building the foundation for Web3. We will also discuss the current state of the Filecoin ecosystem, how we are preserving large enterprise data sets, and how to get started as a Storage Provider on the network. Furthermore, we will offer some real-world customer stories and use cases as well as offer a demonstration of onboarding data to Filecoin.” 

• Brendan Wolfe, Senior Director of Marketing, ScaleFlux    
  “ScaleFlux designed a better SSD, built for mainstream customers using embedded Computational Storage Engines to tap into the full potential of flash memory by offloading the CPU. Our latest 3000-series products deliver more of everything customers want from NVMe SSDs – twice the performance, twice the capacity, and twice the endurance – with none of the headache. We look forward to presenting our better SSDs during the IT Press Tour. It is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to join other industry innovators in showcasing the next generation of IT infrastructure and storage solutions.”