15th IT Press Tour and 5 years

The IT Press Tour (www.itpresstour.com), the media event started in June 2010, will celebrate it's 5 years during the 15th edition in California end of June. The core topic of this week is Software-Defined covered from a network, storage, management and big data perspective. 15 european reporters will participate to meet 11 hot companies, here is the list:

• Big Switch Networks, a pioneer in SDN,
• Catalogic Software, a Copy Data player with strong background in data protection,
• CoreOS, an innovative software for massive deployment,
• DDN Storage, the leader in HPC Storage,
• Hedvig, new SDS apporach by the father of Amazon Dynamo and Apache Cassandra,
• Jut, a new player in Big Data with radical new approach,
• Micron, the giant manufacturer of Flash and NAND devices,
• NexGen Storage, the alternative storage vendor dedicated to QoS based storage,
• Nuage Networks, one of the references in the SDN segment,
• Pure Storage, the future new storage giant,
• and Rozo Systems, promoter of a Erasure-coded Scale-Out NAS for high demanding workload.

With this post, we'd like also to announce the launch of a sister event with same format but dedicated to "Business and IT Applications". This new event will happen the week of October 5th. The current IT Press Tour, let's say the classic one, will continue and will be officially marker as an "IT Infrastructure" event.
I invite you to follow the IT Press Tour via the #ITPT twitter hashtag, me with my twitter handle @CDP_FST and other reporters via their respective handles.