PRESS RELEASE
60th Edition of The IT Press Tour
With this amazing milestone, the coming edition will meet 9 organizations: Aquila Clouds, CloudFabrix, Crystal DB, Hammerspace, iXsystems, Komprise, MLCommons, Panzura and Volumez
Paris, France - January 16, 2025 - The IT Press Tour, a leading media event launched in June 2010, today unveiled participating organizations*
for the coming 60th edition organized the week of January 27th in Silicon Valley.
Around topics like IT infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Data Management and Storage, Big Data and Analytics plus AI, a real horizontal force, the press team will meet 9 organizations. By alpha order they're: Aquila Clouds, CloudFabrix, Crystal DB, Hammerspace, iXsystems, Komprise, MLCommons, Panzura and Volumez. Some of them are new for the tour and others have been met in the past so it represents a perfect mix.
"2024 was a fantastic year with 7 editions, 51 companies with 34 new ones met during 53 sessions, presented by 98 CxO for a total of 2300+ articles. This is huge," said Philippe Nicolas, creator of The IT Press Tour. "We start 2025 with this coming 60th edition, which confirms the role and place of the tour in the industry. We really create a category that proves its value to vendors and media. We'll reach new record with 330 distinct companies for 571 sessions," concluded Nicolas.
With quotes from some participating companies for this coming edition:
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Shailesh Manjrekar, Chief Marketing Officer, CloudFabrix
"It won’t be unreasonable to call out 2024 as the “year of Agentic AI”. CloudFabrix sees Agents as a means to transform its vision of an Autonomous Enterprise, starting with ITOps. By leveraging Data and AI fabric, ITOps teams can achieve faster insights, maintain data integrity, and quickly adapt to changing IT needs, ultimately improving operational efficiency and service reliability. We have made strides executing on this vision and are looking forward to sharing our innovations, customer case studies and partnerships around The Fabrix.AI Platform, with the best IT press team in the industry during the 60th IT Press Tour."
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Molly Presley, SVP Global Marketing, Hammerspace
"The future of GPU computing demands data orchestration that overcomes data silos and puts data in motion—seamlessly bridging file and object workloads at global scale. Hammerspace is leading the charge, proving that performance and data movement can coexist. As we expand globally and accelerate into 2025, we’re excited to share how with The IT Press Tour and their audience how we’re redefining what’s possible for AI and HPC workloads everywhere."
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Brett Davis, Executive Vice President, TrueNAS / iXsystems
"With TrueNAS fresh off of back-to-back Customer Choice Awards from Gartner Peer Insights in North America, we're excited to rejoin the IT Press Tour to showcase some of the ways more than half of the Fortune 500 have transformed their storage economics - achieving data resilience, scalability, and control - all without the constraints of vendor lock-in."
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Krishna Subramanian, COO, President and Cofounder, Komprise
"At the upcoming IT Press Tour, we’re looking forward to discussing the latest needs and trends in unstructured data management. The year 2025 will be a year of transition for IT organizations: preparing data estates for AI is a leading priority. At the same time, IT leaders need to keep a close eye on the threats from ransomware and other malicious actors while optimizing their costs across storage and backups. Komprise is uniquely positioned for these evolving requirements with our platform for unstructured data analytics, migration, tiering, AI data workflows, AI governance and sensitive data detection."
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Petra Davidson, Global Head of Marketing, Panzura
"The modern enterprise has to navigate an ever-more treacherous data landscape. The explosion of unstructured data, evolving threats like ransomware, the expanding complexity of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, and AI-driven disruption mean they need data resiliency, command and control, and immediacy like never before. Panzura is delighted to join IT Press Tour again this year to unveil our latest platform innovations in file management and data services which transcend the limitations of 'what if?' and empower our customers to ask, 'why not?'. At Panzura, it's about more than helping them overcome obstacles — it's about building a foundation on which their business can thrive with unprecedented simplicity and agility."
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John Blumenthal, Chief Product and Business Officer, Volumez
"GPUs are one of the world’s most precious resources today. Yet utilization is typically below 40%, creating immense waste and inefficiencies. The IT Press Tour is providing us the forum to discuss how Volumez helps organizations with AI/ML initiatives maximize data pipeline throughput and automation to maximize GPU utilization -- accelerating training, improving model accuracy, and reducing operational costs."
About The IT Press Tour
The IT Press Tour (ITPT) has been created, organized, promoted, operated and produced since 2010 by Voxyter, a marketing services and consulting firm based in Paris, France. Since the inception, European and US journalists met worldwide high-tech companies to discuss various IT topics covering IT Infrastructure, Data Management, Storage, Business and IT Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber and IT Security. For more information, please visit us at www.itpresstour.com, email us at info@itpresstour.com and follow us on twitter at @ITPressTour, the associated hashtag is #ITPT.
*Full list of sponsors since the first edition by alphabetical order: A10 Networks, Actifio (acquired by Google), Adaptiva, Aera Technology, Aerospike, AetherStore, AirMettle, Alation, Alteryx, Amberflo, Anaplan, AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco), Aptare (acquired by Veritas), Aqua Security, Arc Compute, Arcitecta, Arista Networks, Arkeia (acquired by Western Digital), Atempo, Atlantis Computing (IP assets acquired by HiveIO), AtScale, AuriStor (formerly Your File System), Avere Systems (acquired by Microsoft), Axway, Ayehu (acquired by Resolve), Backblaze, Backupify (acquired by Datto, itself acquired by Kaseya), Bamboo Systems✝, Basho Technologies (acquired by Bet365), Big Switch Networks (acquired by Arista Networks), Biomemory Labs, Bitcasa (acquired by Intel), Blade Network Technologies (acquired by IBM), BMC, Bouquet.AI✝, Box, Branch Metrics (renamed Branch), C3DNA✝, Caringo (acquired by DataCore), Catalogic Software, CDNetworks, Cerabyte, Chartio (acquired by Atlassian), Cleondris, CloudByte (renamed MayaData, acquired by DataCore), CloudEndure (acquired by AWS), Cloudera, CloudFabrix, CloudGenix (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Cloudian, CloudPhysics (acquired by HPE), Clustrix (acquired by MariaDB), Cohesity, Coho Data✝, Commerce.AI, Commvault, Compliance.AI (acquired by Archer), Congruity360, Copiun (acquired by Good Technology), Coraid, Coralogix, Corelight, CoreOS (acquired by Red Hat), Couchbase, Crate.IO, Croit, CTera Networks, Data Dynamics, DataCore, Datadog, DataGrail, Datameer, Datashelter, Datera (acquired by VMware), Datos IO (acquired by Rubrik), Datrium (acquired by VMware), DDN Storage, Deep Instinct, Delphix (acquired by Perforce Software), Diablo Technologies (asset acquired by Rambus), DigiFilm, Disk Archive, DriveScale (acquired by Twitter), Druva, E8 Storage (acquired by AWS), EasyVirt, Egenera, Elastic (formerly Elasticsearch), Elastifile (acquired by Google), eMeter (acquired by Siemens), Emulex (acquired by Avago), Engine Yard, Equalum, European Union eArchiving Initiative, EVault (formerly i365, then acquired by Carbonite itself acquired by OpenText), Exablox (acquired by StorageCraft, itself acquired by Arcserve), ExaGrid, F5 Networks, FalconStor, Filebase, FinOut, Firebase (acquired by Google), Fivetran, FlashGrid, FogCoin, FollowAnalytics (renamed Bryj), FoundationDB (acquired by Apple), Frame (acquired by Nutanix now owned by Dizzion), Fujifilm Recording Media, Fungible (acquired by Microsoft), Fusion-IO (acquired by SanDisk, itself acquired by WDC), Graid Technology, GridGain, Groq, Guardtime, H2O.ai, Hammerspace, Harness, Hazelcast, Hedvig (acquired by Commvault), High Cloud Security (acquired by HyTrust), Hightail (formerly YouSendIT, acquired by OpenText), Hopsworks, Hortonworks (merged with Cloudera), HYCU, Hydrolix, Igneous Systems (acquired by Rubrik), Iguazio (acquired by McKinsey), Illusive Networks (acquired by ProofPoint), Index Engines, Indexima, Infinidat (acquired by Lenovo), Infinio (acquired by Ignitech), InfluxData, Inspeere, Insurgo, Iodyne, iRODS, Isilon (acquired by EMC, itself acquired by Dell Technologies), iXsystems, Joyent (acquired by Samsung), Juicedata, Jut✝, Kaminario (morphed into Silk), Kalista, Kaseya, Kinetica, Know & Decide, Komodor, Komprise, LakeFS, Leil Storage, Librato (acquired by SolarWinds), Lightbits Labs, LINBIT, Liqid, LiveAction (acquired by BlueCat), LogicMonitor, Lookout Mobile Security, LucidLink, Mabl, Mangstor (morphed into Exten Technologies, acquired by OVHcloud), Manticore Search, MapR Technologies (acquired by HPE), MarkLogic (acquired by Progress), MaxLinear, MemoScale, Metadata.IO, Micron, MinIO, MLCommons, Model9 (acquired by BMC), MooseFS, MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce), N-able, Nasuni, Nebulon (acquired by Nvidia), NEC, NetApp, Nexenta (acquired by DDN), NexGen Storage (acquired by Pivot3), Nexustorage, Nicira Networks (acquired by VMware), Nginx (acquired by F5 Networks), NGX Storage, Nimble Storage (acquired by HPE), Nimbus Data Systems, Nine Technology (acquired by Imation), Nodeum, NooBaa Storage (acquired by Red Hat, itself acquired by IBM), Nuage Networks (acquired by Nokia), Nuclia, NuoDB (formerly NimbusDB, acquired by Dassault Systèmes), Nyriad✝, ObjectiveFS, Observe, Odaseva, OmniSci (formerly MapD morphed into Heavy.ai), Onepanel, Open vStorage✝, OpenIO (acquired by OVHcloud), OpenStack, Outpace.IO✝, Own Data (renamed from OwnBackup then acquired by Salesforce), Oxide Computer, Palo Alto Networks, Panasas (renamed VDura), Panzura, Pavilion Data Systems✝, Pernix Data (acquired by Nutanix), PetaGene (for CunoFS, acquired by Storj), Petuum, Phala Data✝, Phison, Pica8, Platfora (acquired by Workday), Platform9, Platform.sh, Pliops, Plug and Play Tech Center, PoINT Software & Systems, Portworx (acquired by Pure Storage), Primary Data✝, Project Velero, Promethium, Proofpoint, ProphetStor, Protocol Labs, ProxySQL, Publist, Pulumi, Pure Storage, QStar Technologies, Quantum, Qubole (acquired by Idera), Quickwit (acquired by DataDog), Qumulo, RainStor (acquired by Teradata), RapidAPI, Redis Labs, Reduxio Systems (morphed into Ionir), Rimage, Riverbed, Robin.IO (acquired by RakutenSymphony), Rookout (acquired by Dynatrace), Rozo Systems (acquired by Hammerspace), RStor (acquired by PacketFabric), Rubrik, SambaNova, Sanbolic (acquired by Citrix, itself acquired and combined with Tibco to form Cloud Software Group), Scale Computing, ScaleFlux, Scality, Scalytics, SendBird, Sherbit (acquired by Medopad), ShieldIO, SimpliVity (acquired by HPE), Simplyblock, SingleStore, SmartIOPS, Snowflake, SoftIron, SolidFire (acquired by NetApp), Solix Technologies, Solo.io, Sonian (acquired by Barracuda Networks), Soonr (acquired by Autotask then merged with Datto, itself acquired by Kaseya), Spanning Cloud Apps (acquired by Kaseya), Spectra Logic, SpeeDB (acquired by Redis), SpringPath (acquired by Cisco), Starboard Storage Systems (acquired by SGI, itself acquired by HPE), Storadera, StorageX.ai, StorCentric✝, StorONE, StorPool, StorSimple (acquired by Microsoft), StrongLink✝ (formerly StrongBox Data Solutions), Sumo Logic, Swissbit, Symform (acquired by Quantum), Symworld Cloud (formerly Robin.io following Rakuten acquisition), Synata (acquired by Cisco), Sync Computing, Sysdig, Tegile Systems (acquired by Western Digital and then by DDN), ThoughtSpot, ThousandEyes (acquired by Cisco), Tiger Technology, Tintri (acquired by DDN), Trifacta (acquired by Alteryx), Tuxera, TwinStrata (acquired by EMC, itself acquired by Dell Technologies), Ubeeko (now HFactory), UnifabriX, Valohai, Varonis, VAST Data, Veritas Technologies (NetBackup business acquired by Cohesity, rest renamed Arctera), Versity Software, Vexata (acquired by StorCentric), Viking Enterprise Solutions (a division of Sanmina), Violin Memory (acquired by StorCentric), Virsto (acquired by VMware), Virtana (formerly Virtual Instruments), VMware (acquired by Broadcom), Volumez, Wasabi, Waterline Data (acquired by Hitachi Vantara), Webz.io (formerly Webhose.io), Weebit, WEKA, Western Digital, WhipTail (acquired by Cisco), XenData, Xirrus (acquired by Riverbed), Yellowfin, Yuzuy, Zadara Storage, ZeroPoint Technologies, Zerto (acquired by HPE), ZettaScale, Zoho, Zscaler and Zuora.