70th Edition of The IT Press Tour Returns to Silicon Valley

The IT Press Tour, a media event launched in June 2010, unveiled participating organizations for the coming 70th edition organized in Silicon Valley, the week of October 5th, 2026.

This edition will cover topics like IT infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Data Management and Storage, Big Data and Analytics plus AI, on every lips, today. The press group will exchange with 7 companies. By alpha order they’re: Clockwork, Cohesity, CTera, DDN, Phison, ScaleFlux and VergeIO.

“We’re back in Silicon Valley for the 70th edition of The IT Press Tour, a real milestone for the initiative we launched in 2010. It’s always a pleasure to return to the heart of the tech industry and reconnect with companies that have been part of this journey for years alongside newer players entering the space. This edition brings a strong mix of established storage and data management leaders with emerging innovators, all navigating the impact of AI on infrastructure. With this coming 70th edition, we’ll cross new milestones, illustrating the continued relevance of the tour on the market since 2010,” said Philippe Nicolas, creator of The IT Press Tour.

With quotes from some participating companies for this coming edition:​​

• Sanjay Poonen, CEO and President, Cohesity
  “The IT Press Tour gives us a valuable opportunity to speak with journalists who know the enterprise technology market and understand the challenges customers face. AI is changing both cyber risk and cyber defense. Organizations need to know they can recover trusted data and critical systems when an attack succeeds, while also using their data securely to support AI. We look forward to sharing how Cohesity is helping customers do both.”

• Oded Nagel, CEO, CTERA
  “We are pleased to once again join The IT Press Tour, this time in Palo Alto, to share how CTERA is turning enterprise data into a foundation for AI. As organizations move from experimenting with AI to putting it to work, they need a secure, unified data fabric that makes distributed, unstructured data usable, governed, and protected everywhere it lives. We look forward to discussing how CTERA helps enterprises connect their environments, unlock actionable intelligence, and keep that data safe as AI reshapes how it is accessed and used.”

• Sven Oehme, CTO, DDN
  “The IT Press Tour brings together journalists who understand the technologies shaping the future of enterprise computing. We look forward to sharing how DDN is advancing AI and data intelligence—helping organizations keep GPUs productive, accelerate increasingly complex workloads, and turn AI infrastructure into measurable business outcomes.”

• Michael Wu, GM & President, Americas, Phison Electronics
  “We’re looking forward to joining The IT Press Tour, which provides a unique opportunity to connect with industry journalists and share how Phison is redefining data infrastructure at the systems level to support the next era of AI, Gen6 performance and even data in space. As data demands become more complex, we’re focused on making data more accessible, efficient and secure across increasingly demanding environments.”

• Hao Zhong, Co-founder and CEO, ScaleFlux
  “We are delighted to welcome the IT Press Tour to ScaleFlux and share how we are scaling the AI data pipeline by making data movement across storage and memory more efficient. This visit is a valuable opportunity to discuss the challenges shaping AI infrastructure and demonstrate the innovations we are developing to address them.”

• George Crump, CMO, VergeIO
  “In January we came to The IT Press Tour group with the VMware alternative story, and customers like Saratoga Casino Holdings have since proved it in production. In October we return with the larger story. The endgame is not swapping hypervisors. It is infrastructure modernization built on a Public Cloud Operating System that delivers cloud simplicity and economics inside the customer’s own data center.”