2016 Storage Visions Conference Announces Annual Visionary Awards Finalists

The Fifteen annual Storage Visions Conference, January 4 & 5, 2016 at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas is pleased to announce Storage Visions Visionary Awards finalists. The conference theme is:  Storage for the Next 5,000 Years. The conference agenda can be seen at: http://www.storagevisions.com/2016Agenda.htm.  SV 2016 registration is over twice as large as in 2015.  SV 2016 is a partner program to the 2016 CES, and early conference registration provides a free pass to the CES exhibits.

The finalist products and companies for the annual Storage Visions Visionary Awards are listed below.  Congratulations to the award finalists!  We had some excellent award submissions this year, making the finalist selection process difficult. The award winner announcements and trophy presentations will be done in the evening of January 4, 2016 during the 2016 Storage Visions Conference reception.

Finalists for Visionary Products Awards:
*  Aspera Files
*  Avid Isis 1000
*  DDN WOS 360 v 2.0
*  HGST Active Archive System
*  Marvell 88NV1140/88NV1120 DRAM-less NVMe controller
*  Panasas ActiveStor 18
*  Primary Data DataSphere platform
*  Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB NVMe M.2  V-NAND SSD
*  Samsung SM863 Enterprise SSD
*  Solidfire All Flash storage system
*  Spectra Logic ArticBlue

Finalists for End User Awards:
*  Backblaze Backup and Cloud Offering
*  Montreux Jazz Digital Project using HGST Active Archive
*  Telefonica using Caringo FileFly

Conference registration is open until December 26, 2015 using the links at:  http://www.storagevisions.com/2015Register.htm.

Sponsors and exhibitors at the 2016 Storage Visions Conference are Active Storage, Aspera, Backblaze, Coughlin Associates, DDN, Drive Trust Alliance, Drive Savers, Fujifilm, Intel, Quantum, SNIA, SNIA SSSI, Trusted Computing Group, HDDFA, RDC and WireFi. Organization and media sponsors include: Adobe Video World, Advantage Video, AVSystems, Broadcast Beat, Consultants Network of Silicon Valley, Coughlin Associates, Davis Consulting Asia, DCIA, Digital Cinema Society, Digital Production Buzz, Drive Trust Alliance, Ethernet Alliance, Flash Memory Summit, HDDFA, HomeToys, IBTA, SCV IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, IT Central Station, Media and Entertainment Tech, NexGen Cloud, Objective Analysis, Parks Associates, Postperspective.com, ProductionHUB, RDC, St. Petersburg Univ. of Film & Television, SATA-IO, SMPTE, SNIA, SNIA SSSI, storagesearch.com, TechTarget, The Shindler Perspective, The Channel Company and VegasTechShows.