16th Annual Flash Memory Summit on August 2-4, 2022 in Santa Clara, CA

Flash Memory Summit (FMS), the flash memory conference and exposition, will hold its 16th annual conference as a live event on August 2-4, 2022 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA.

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By going live again, it offers an opportunity to bring together the industry leading vendors and emerging new storage start-ups, channel partners of total storage solutions, and IT storage professionals from around the world. It offers the industry experience to explore the latest storage standards, the newest innovations of memory technology and product advances to help attendees create the most competitive, high-performance storage solutions for on-premise data centers and public cloud locations.

FMS will include:
• Keynotes and presentations from storage providers and new emerging companies launching at FMS
• Expert insights on high-performance storage applications such as real-time analytics, AI/ML, big data, hyperscale and cloud infrastructure environments
• Chat with the experts: An evening of pizza, beer and conversation with subject matter experts where you can bring your toughest most challenging questions, and get the real answers
• Annual awards and recognition programs, including:

Lifetime Achievement Award recognizing the most distinguished industry leaders pioneering the development and use of flash memory
Best of Show Awards recognizing product vendor innovations spanning solutions of hardware, software, and services addressing the most demanding customer applications
SuperWomen in Flash Award recognizing the most outstanding leadership of women in the storage industry

• Network with all of the major companies in the exhibit hall and engage in conversations with all of your fellow colleagues

“We are excited to bring back together again flash memory vendors, channel partners and the customer community for an interactive experience,” said Jay Kramer, FMS co-founder and master of ceremonies. “There is nothing like a live event where you can meet one-on-one with industry leading analysts, attend interesting technology sessions, listen to inspiring keynote presentations and discover new innovative vendor solutions.”

Comments

All public storage shows are disappearing.

No one but FMS is scheduled this year, being consequently the #1 public storage event worldwide and since several years.

SNIA Europe in Germany, Storage Expo UK and Stockage in France disappear many years ago. There were also big shows with a lot of storage exhibitors at Sicob, Comdex or CeBIT, also dead. Today you can see some storage exhibitors in event like NAB, CES, Computex, and Supercomputing, not focused on storage and more vertically oriented. There are also some private shows organized by big vendors.

It will be difficult for FMS 2022 next August 2022 to be a success, as least reaching the following numbers like 140 sponsors and exhibitors and 6,200 visitors like in 2017.

Flash is obviously an excellent subject for an event, even if it's highly technical.

FMS was a virtual event in 2020, but not successful and no figures being revealed, and completely canceled in 2021. After two years like that, it's always difficult to pursue the same event.

The name of the current exhibitors is not published up to now on the FMS web site, so it's impossible to appreciate the success of the coming event.

The organization didn't decide to launch this event in Europe. But here was a Flash Memory World in 2021 in Hangzhou, China.

FMS figures Y/Y

Year

Total registration

Y/Y Growth

Sponsors/
Exhibitors

2006

675

2007

1,046

55%