San Jose, CA, August 09, 2013 -- The Storage Valley Supper Club, an informal forum that fosters the continuing development of storage technology holds its next meeting on Thursday August 15th at Dave and Busters, The Great Mall, Milpitas, CA. The program begins at 6:00 PM with drinks and networking.

Following dinner, the evening’s program features three presentations and concludes with a Q&A panel. The first presenter, Andy Higginbotham, is President of Price G2, a market research and consulting firm that tracks SSD, HDD, USB Flash Drives and Memory Cards. His topic: “The Transition to Tablet PCs Creates a Paradigm Shift in Storage.”
Summary: The PC industry has suffered its worst 5 consecutive quarters of decline in its history. This has sent the worldwide HDD unit shipments down to levels 5 years ago. Simultaneously, the SSD industry has opportunities for expansion. This presentation highlights SSD new technology introductions, product features, and industry pricing.

The second presenter, Scott Shadley, is Senior Manager, Enterprise SSD Marketing, Micron Technology. He oversees the Enterprise SSD Product Marketing Organization, focused on Product Development and Deployment for all SATA, SAS, and PCIe SSD products. His topic: “Future Memory Technology.” Summary: While NAND and SSDs are truly coming of age in Enterprise and Personal Systems markets, the innovation does not stop there. Between advances in DRAM technology beyond DDR4, combinations of DRAM and NAND in NV-DIMM products, and advancement in 3D NAND, PCM and other new Non Volatile memory, there is still more coming on the memory front. He will showcase current, next generation, and especially future technologies we can expect to see from Micron in the coming years.

The third presenter is Radoslav Danilak, CEO, Skyera. His topic: “Next-Generation Flash is a Sea Change for Enterprise Storage.” Summary: To cope with ever-increasing demands on data centers, we must keep building robust storage systems around the latest NAND flash. New generations of chips will become available with higher densities but lower endurance. Using them to build leading-edge solid-state storage systems will require deep technical knowledge of and unique customizations to the flash itself. Following the presentations, attendees can direct questions to a Q&A panel.

Additional information and registration is available at: svsc.eventbrite.com

For additional information on the conference call 408-978-8184 or email [email protected]. The Storage Valley Supper Club is a production of the Entertainment Storage Alliance (www.entertainmentstorage.org) and Coughlin Associates (www.tomcoughlin.com).

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