14th Edition of IT Press Tour to Come

The IT Press Tour, a media event launched in June 2010, and operated, organized, promoted and initiated by The Condor Consulting Group, a marketing services and consulting firm based in France, announced participating companies for the 14th edition scheduled of December 1-5 in Silicon Valley to be flollowed by European 15 journalists and reporters. 

Twelve innovative companies will be visited: Cloudera, Cloudian, Diablo Technologies, Elasticsearch, Exablox, Nimble Storage, ObjectiveFS, Platfora, Platform9, Primary Data, Qubole and Spanning Cloud Apps.

“This new edition of the IT Press Tour, the 14th, represents a key milestone for the team and the project with a total of almost 150 sessions – 149 exactly – and 105 companies met since we launched the project in June 2010,” said Celine Coustaut, owner, IT Press Tour. “We’re glad to visit new emerging companies and established ones. Two very visible companies come back, Cloudera for the 5th time and Nimble Storage for the 4th time, demonstrating the value of The IT Press Tour and the strong relationship we have built with them over time. The 10 others are new participants.”

“Nimble is always looking for unique opportunities to engage with the European audience. For the fourth year in a row, IT Press Tour will provide an efficient platform for us to expand our brand awareness across the region,” said Dan Leary, VP WW marketing, Nimble Storage.

“The IT Press Tour represents an excellent opportunity for companies such as Diablo to gain valuable exposure to the EMEA server and storage markets,” said Kevin Wagner, VP marketing, Diablo Technologies. “As demand for our Memory Channel Storage (MCS) platform continues to gain traction in the enterprise, the IT Press Tour will provide the right venue for delivering our progress and messaging to the critical press and bloggers across the EMEA territory.“

Other milestones of IT Press Tour since June 2010

• Pool of 50+ EMEA journalists with 15 at each EMEA edition

• Total coverage (press articles in print or online, blog posts, video posts, etc.) = 3600
• Average coverage per company = 37+ (=3600/95, excluding 14th edition)
• Average coverage per session = 25+ (=3600/145, excluding 14th edition)
• Total CEO met = 70+

• Total CTO met = 50+

Among them:
Lee Chen (CEO, A10 Networks), Jayshree Ullal (CEO, Arista Networks), Aaron Levie (CEO, Box), Doug Cutting (father of Hadoop Cloudera), Mike Olson (former CEO, Cloudera), Jedidiah Yueh (CEO, Delphix), Sujal Patel (former CEO, Isilon), Fred van den Bosch (CEO, Librato), Gary Bloom (CEO, MarkLogic), Suresh Vasudevan (CEO, Nimble Storage), Palo Alto Networks (CTO, Nir Zuk), Scott Dietzen (CEO, Pure Storage), John Colgrove (CTO, Pure Storage), Don Basile (former CEO, Violin Memory) and John W. Thompson (CEO, Virtual Instruments).

Total IPO = 6 (done after IT Press Tours):
A10 Networks, Arista Networks, Nimble Storage, Palo Alto Networks, Varonis and Violin Memory

Total Acquisitions = 17 (done after IT Press Tours):
Arkeia by WDC, Blade Network Technologies by IBM, Copiun by Good Technology, eMeter by Siemens, Firebase by Google, Fusion-IO by Sandisk, High cloud Security by HyTrust, Isilon by EMC, NexGen Storage by Fusion-IO, Nicira by VMware, Nine Technology by Imation, Starboard Storage by SGI, Storsimple by Microsoft, Symform by Quantum, TwinStrata by EMC, Virsto by VMware and Whiptail by Cisco.

All sponsors up to now by alphabetical order:
A10 Networks, AetherStore, Arista Networks, Arkeia, Atlantis Computing, Avere Systems, Backblaze, Backupify, Bitcasa, Blade Network Technologies (before and after IBM acquisition), Box, Caringo, CDNetworks, CloudByte, Cloudera, Cloudian, CloudPhysics, Clustrix, Coho Data, Copiun, Coraid, Couchbase, CTera Networks, DataCore, Delphix, Diablo Technologies, Druva, Egenera, Elasticsearch, eMeter, Emulex, Engine Yard, EVault (formerly i365), Exablox, ExaGrid, F5 Networks, FalconStor, Firebase, Fusion-io, Guardtime, High cloud Security, Hightail (formerly YouSendIT), Hortonworks, Isilon, Joyent, Librato, Lookout Mobile Security, MapR Technologies, MarkLogic, MuleSoft, Nexenta, NexGen Storage, Nicira Networks, Nimble Storage, Nimbus Data Systems, Nine Technology, NuoDB (formerly NimbusDB), ObjectiveFS, OpenStack, Palo Alto Networks, Panzura, Platfora, Platform9, Plug and Play Tech Center, Primary Data, Proofpoint, Pure Storage, Quantum, Qubole, RainStor, Riverbed, Sanbolic, Scality, SimpliVity, SolidFire, Solix, Sonian, Soonr, Spanning cloud Apps, Starboard Storage Systems, StorSimple, Sumo Logic, Symform, ThousandEyes, Tintri, TwinStrata, Ubeeko, Varonis, Violin Memory, Virsto, Virtual Instruments, WhipTail, Zadara Storage, Zerto, Zoho and Zscaler.