12th IT Press Tour to Visit 12 Innovative Companies

The IT Press Tour, a media event launched in June 2010, announced participating companies for the 12th edition.

Twelve innovative companies will be visited during the 1st week of December 2013 in San Francisco and Silicon Valley:

• Atlantis Computing,
• CloudByte, CloudPhysics,
• Coho Data,
• Coraid,
• Couchbase,
• Librato, Nimble Storage,
• Scality,
• Soonr,
• ThousandEyes, and
• Ubeeko.

With this 12th edition, the tour will have visited 86 companies* totalizing 122 sessions as some players chose to participate several times since the 1st event in June 2010. This new edition will illustrate the match between vendors’ goals and objectives and press’ expectations.

“Well established and recognized on the market, the IT Press Tour represents a very good opportunity to touch and approach the EMEA market for Atlantis Computing. It will take place at the right time aligned with our strategy to increase our awareness in this important market,” said Gregg Holzrichter, VP marketing, Atlantis Computing.

“The IT Press Tour has over the years proved a great showcase for successful, innovative tech companies. We look forward to joining the 12th edition this December,” said Ghislain Mazars, founder and CEO, Ubeeko.

“We’re glad to meet new emerging start-ups such CloudByte, CloudPhysics, Coho Data, ThousandEyes and Ubeeko associated with recognized and established other young ones,” said Celine Coustaut, owner of The IT Press Tour. “This edition will be again a good mix of emerging technologies covering many hot trends with new european journalists joining the group.” continues Coustaut.

“And just to update potential participants, the 13th edition in June 2014, is already half booked, so be fast to join if you wish to participate,” concludes Coustaut.

*sponsors 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, CloudPhysics, Clustrix, Coho Data, Copiun, Coraid, Couchbase, CTera Networks, DataCore, Delphix, Druva, Egenera, eMeter, Emulex, Engine Yard, EVault (formerly i365), 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), OpenStack, Palo Alto Networks, Panzura, Plug and Play Tech Center, Proofpoint, Pure Storage, Quantum, RainStor, Riverbed, Sanbolic, Scality, SimpliVity, SolidFire, Solix, Sonian, Soonr, Starboard Storage Systems, StorSimple, Sumo Logic, Symform, ThousandEyes, Tintri, TwinStrata, Ubeeko, Varonis, Violin Memory, Virsto, Virtual Instruments, WhipTail, Zadara Storage, Zerto, Zoho and Zscaler.