43rd Edition of IT Press Tour in Israel

The IT Press Tour (ITPT), a media event launched in June 2010, announced participating companies for the 43rd edition scheduled the week of 3rd of April in Israel. Eight companies will participate to this new edition dedicated to IT innovations: CTera Networks, Data Dynamics, HYCU, Infinidat, Komodor, Model9, Pliops and Speedb.

“Coming back to Israel was a major goal for this beginning of 2022 following a crazy period with the Covid pandemic. We have great souvenir from our past tours in the country, meeting various hot companies and spending time will great leaders and innovators. We prepare a new visit with new companies like Komodor, Pliops or Speedb but also well known ones like CTera Networks, Data Dynamics, HYCU, Infinidat and Model9 all playing in IT infrastructure, data and storage management. We also continue to reach new levels having generated 17,600+ articles, visiting 253 companies, organizing 433 sessions and meeting 900+ CxO met after 42 editions.” concluded Philippe Nicolas, creator of the ITPT.

Quotes from some participating companies:

• Liran Eshel, CEO, CTera Networks
  “CTERA, the distributed cloud file storage leader, is excited to once again host the ITPT at our headquarters in Israel. We look forward to discussing the latest industry trends and challenges and the types of solutions and insights the data-driven enterprise will require to succeed from the edge to the core and to the cloud.”

• Simon Taylor, founder and CEO, HYCU
  “As we all start to return to in-person events, a must attend for all of us at HYCU is ITPT. Philippe and his team provide a unique opportunity to meet with many of the IT industry’s leading journalists in an authentic and meaningful way. As our business in Israel continues to grow organically at an accelerated pace, we believe this is the perfect opportunity to participate in the 43rd ITPT. It will also provide our team with the chance to share significant updates on HYCU, our work with customers to protect and recover against ransomware as well as what the team has been doing to help both partners and customers navigate their cloud journey both efficiently and cost-effectively.”

• Eric Herzog, CMO, Infinidat
  “Infinidat’s industry acclaimed solutions deliver global enterprises and service providers data-driven competitive advantage at scale. Our software defined storage architecture provides the lowest microsecond latency in the industry, 100% availability, powerful scalability, and comprehensive cyber resilience with significantly lower CAPEX and OPEX than competing storage offerings. Infinidat’s enterprise storage solutions for primary and secondary storage deployments are powering many of the world’s largest enterprises. We are very excited to engage with the journalists during the upcoming ITPT.”

• Tamar Milstein, CMO, Model9
  “Model9, a pioneer of cloud data management for mainframe, is excited to take part in the prestigious ITPT and discuss the future of modern enterprise data management and the hybrid cloud with the world’s leading tech journalists. Model9 modernizes mainframe data management and business intelligence in enterprises to help them democratize data and protect it from cyber threats. Its software-only products securely deliver mainframe data to any cloud object storage and data lakehouse, and enables sharing data with advanced AI/ML and analytics platforms to derive business insights.”

• Uri Beitler, CEO, Pliops
  “With unprecedented data, user, and services growth, cloud and enterprise data centers face unprecedented challenges to scale their infrastructure more efficiently. From usual constraints such as space, power, and regulatory requirements – new supply chain constraints are driving organizations to rethink data center architecture. At Pliops, we are fundamentally changing how the industry looks at data center scaling – and we’re doing it with our breakthrough Extreme Data Processor (XDP). We look forward to interactive ITPT sessions where we will share insights on how Pliops XDP exponentially increases performance, reliability, capacity, and efficiency, multiplying the effectiveness of data-intensive applications and infrastructure.”