Tenth Edition of The IT Press Tour

Céline Coustaut, the wife of Philippe Nicolas – now working at Scality – is now in charge of The IT Press Tour, a media event launched two years ago.

Several European IT journalists are invited for a week in USA to approach US companies, mainly storage start-ups.

2,200 press coverages were published for 66 companies for the total nine past editions or 33 per firms visited.

For the tenth one, December 3-7 in in San Francisco, CA and Silicon Valley, there will be meetings with 13 firms including Bitcasa, Cloudera, Engine Yard, EVault, MuleSoft, Nimble Storage, Riverbed, Scality, SolidFire, Starboard Storage Systems, Symform, Tintri and Virsto.

"It represents 72 unique companies since the first tour in June 2010 for a total of 98 sessions so on average 10 companies per tour, a good balance for our group. A few new members are added to the EMEA press group with journalists coming form UK, Italy and Poland," said Coustaut, co-owner of The IT Press Tour.

Two new editions are planned for 2013, the next one during the week of June 24.