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The Storage Visions™ 2008 Conference Conference Theme:

                                    —Preserving, Protecting and Sharing your Life Using Digital Storage

STORAGE FOR CONTENT CREATION, DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

In many regards data storage now serves the role once held by the printing press. It makes vast amounts of information, entertainment and communication available to the bulk of mankind. Like the books of old the networked data storage world is the repository of our modern civilization. This two-day conference will focus on storage and technology that services the creation of human content, its distribution, and reception in our modern networked world. Unlike the CES, that follows the Storage Visions Conference our event focuses on digital storage and entertainment and personal applications. As a consequence of being a smaller and more focused event sponsors, exhibitors and speakers have an easier time getting their message heard by the attendees. The signal-to-noise ratio at Storage Visions is much higher than at the CES and is a perfect and affordable companion to CES participation. Our intention is to bring together people, organizations, and companies that are a part of this data content food chain.

Conference Overview

The annual Storage Visions Conference will be held January 5 & 6, 2008 at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. As in past conferences the 2008 Storage Visions will be held in association with the CES show. Program components include:

• Storage for Entertainment Distribution, Editing and Creation.
• Financial and Market Analysis of Storage Companies and Applications
• Enabling Technologies for Storage in Consumer Applications
• Integration of Storage in Consumer Electronics
• Storage for Mobile CE Applications
• Storage for Home CE Applications
• Home Storage Networking
• Hard Disk Drives
• Flash Memory
• Optical Storage
• New Storage Technologies

Sponsorship and speaker opportunities are available for this conference.

Demograpics of the 2007 Storage Visions Conference and Future Projections
•   There were 430 participants in the 2007 Storage Visions Conference, 370 conference participants during the two days of the conference and 60 more people who participated in the exhibits only.
•   Based upon historical growth trends for the 2007 and earlier Storage Visions Conference we estimate that 2008 will have over 450 participants, 2009 will have about 500 participants and the 2010 conference should have more than 550 participants. Our intention is to create a controlled growth event providing a quality experience for attendees.
•   In 2007 over 30% of conference attendees were press and analysts including people from The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The San Jose Mercury News, Penton Publications, Pennwell Publications, BBC, CBS Television in Los Angeles, PC World, Engineering Design News, IDG News, IDC, iSuppli, Web Fee Research, and Coughlin Associates. We plan to continue our outreach and appeal to press and analyst community that have an interest in digital storage and its applications. In 2007 we had a separate press room, a press coordinator. We also had a webcast and video recording of the conference as well as a podcast from the conference.
•   Following are the demographics of the last few Storage Visions Conference.

Note that our media attendance is up over 100% from 2006 to 2007 reflecting the value that press saw in the conference. The increased media numbers decreased the percentage of other categories although unit totals for other categories increased.