PR Mar 3 2026 | The IT Press Tour

PRESS RELEASE

The 67th Edition of The IT Press Tour Will Take Place Soon in Sofia, Bulgaria

With six companies: Caeves Technology, Leil Storage, NGX Storage, PoINT Software & Systems, StorPool and Storware

Paris, France - Mar. 3, 2026 - The IT Press Tour, a leading media event launched in June 2010, today unveiled participating companies*

for the coming 67th edition scheduled March 31st and April 1st in the capital of Bulgaria, Sofia.

This edition will cover topics like IT infrastructure, Cloud, Networking, Data Management and Storage, Big Data and Analytics plus AI, ubiquitous today. The press team will meet 6 companies. By alpha order they're: Caeves Technology, Leil Storage, NGX Storage, PoINT Software & Systems, StorPool and Storware.

"We're back in Europe after a very dense edition in California in January. This coming edition, the 67th, organized in the beautiful city of Sofia will be the opportunity to meet 6 companies, 2 of them will be new for the team, Caeves and Storware, and the 4 others we already met as we followed for a few years and we need a company and product update," said Philippe Nicolas, creator of The IT Press Tour. "The tour continues its fantastic journey and we measured each day the impact it produces on the market having promoted 361 companies for 613 sessions so far without counting this coming edition. These numbers speak for themselves, The IT Press Tour is unique and we'll beat soon new records," concluded Nicolas.

With quotes from some participating companies for this coming edition:

Jaap van Duijvenbode, Co-founder and Head of Product and Customer Experience, Caeves Technology
"We are excited to join The IT Press Tour to engage directly with industry leaders and journalists at a time when enterprise storage is reaching a critical tipping point. Data is growing at an unprecedented pace, however much of it remains dark and disconnected from real business value. Organizations want their historical data ready for search and AI, but high-performance storage is expensive and traditional archive approaches limit accessibility. Legacy NAS and archive solutions were simply not built for an era where every document can become an intelligent data source. At CAEVES, in close partnership with Microsoft, we transform dark data into cost-efficient, AI-ready cloud storage that remains accessible without disrupting users or applications. We look forward to contributing to the broader conversation on modern data foundations and sharing how deep storage can become a strategic advantage in the AI era."
Aleksandr Ragel, CEO, Leil Storage
"Global data is growing exponentially, but the legacy software managing 87% of it is stuck in the past, wasting massive amounts of space and energy. Leil Storage’s HDD-native approach bridges this gap. By aligning our software directly with the sequential physical realities of modern high-density media, we eliminate the bottlenecks of legacy stacks, delivering cloud-scale capacity and performance for the enterprise. We are excited to return to The IT Press Tour to demonstrate how to deploy high-density SMR drives at scale without the traditional performance tax. We will share our latest product advancements and roadmap, which provides extra visibility into our mission to bridge the software-hardware gap and unlock these gains for everyone."
Thomas Thalmann, CEO, PoINT Software & Systems
"Companies face growing challenges to their storage strategy, not just technical and economic, but increasingly legal, as data sovereignty becomes critical. At The IT Press Tour in Sofia, Bulgaria, we will present our S3-to-Tape approach - a software solution made in Europe. Integrating a tape-based S3 storage class into the on-prem infrastructure enhances control, reduces foreign dependency, and cuts costs while maintaining scalability.”
Boyan Ivanov, CEO, StorPool
“At StorPool, we believe modern infrastructure should be a source of competitive advantage. As organizations actively rethink their virtualization, cloud and AI strategies, the need for fast, resilient, and operationally simple storage becomes even more critical. Our mission is to provide service providers and enterprises with a powerful storage platform that optimizes cost across the entire datacenter, so they can focus on growth, not back-end operations. Events like The IT Press Tour are essential because they bring industry leaders together to showcase advances in innovation and move the ecosystem forward.”
Paweł Mączka CEO, Storware
"From day one, Storware chose a different path. While much of the market focused on proprietary virtualization, we built enterprise-grade backup and recovery natively for KVM- and Xen-based platforms — anticipating the industry’s shift toward openness and flexibility. Today, licensing volatility, vendor lock-in, and regulatory frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA are no longer peripheral concerns but strategic drivers reshaping infrastructure decisions. At the same time, enterprises are embracing Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization, OLVM, and modern HCI platforms such as Nutanix AHV, VergeOS, and SC//Platform to build more flexible, multi-vendor environments. Storware was built for this reality, delivering data protection that is truly independent of any single platform — empowering organizations with sovereignty, resilience, and full control over their data. At IT Press Tour, we look forward to discussing how open architectures, regulatory-driven sovereignty, and multi-hypervisor strategies are redefining enterprise IT - and why independence at the data protection layer is becoming mission-critical."

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: 9LivesData, A10 Networks, Actifio (acquired by Google), Adaptiva, Aera Technology, Aerospike, AetherStore, AirMettle, Alation, Alteryx, Amberflo, Anaplan, AppsCode, AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco), Aptare (acquired by Veritas now known as Arctera itself acquired by Cloud Software Group), Aqua Security, Aquila Clouds, Arc Compute, Arcitecta, Arista Networks, Arkeia (acquired by Western Digital), Atempo (acquired by HorizonH), Atlantis Computing (IP assets acquired by HiveIO), AtScale, AuriStor (formerly Your File System), Auwau, 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✝, Caeves Technology, 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 (now renamed Fabrix.AI), 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), CompressionX, Congruity360, Copiun (acquired by Good Technology), Coraid, Coralogix, Corelight, CoreOS (acquired by Red Hat), Couchbase, Crate.IO, Croit, Crystal DBA, CTera Networks, DAOS, 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, DDP/Ardis, 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), Enakta Labs, Engine Yard, Equalum, EuroNAS, European Union eArchiving Initiative, EVault (formerly i365, then acquired by Carbonite itself acquired by OpenText), Ewigbyte, Exablox (acquired by StorageCraft, itself acquired by Arcserve), ExaGrid, F5 Networks, FalconStor, FerretDB, 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, Sandisk now again independent), Globus, Graid Technology, GridGain, Groq, Guardtime, H2O.ai, Hammerspace, Harness, Hazelcast, Hedvig (acquired by Commvault), Helikai, High Cloud Security (acquired by HyTrust), Hightail (formerly YouSendIT, acquired by OpenText), Hopsworks, Hortonworks (merged with Cloudera), HYCU, Hydrolix, HyperBunker, Igneous Systems (acquired by Rubrik), Iguazio (acquired by McKinsey), Illusive Networks (acquired by ProofPoint), Index Engines, Indexima, Infinidat (pending acquisition by Lenovo), Infinio (acquired by Ignitech), InfluxData, InfoScale, 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 (acquired by F-Secure), Lucidity, LucidLink, Mabl, Mangstor (morphed into Exten Technologies, acquired by OVHcloud), the lustre Collective, 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 (acquired by Progress Software), NuoDB (formerly NimbusDB, acquired by Dassault Systèmes), Novodisq, Nyriad✝, ObjectiveFS, Observe, Odaseva, OmniSci (formerly MapD morphed into Heavy.ai), Onepanel, Open vStorage✝, OpenIO (acquired by OVHcloud), OpenMP, OpenStack, Outpace.IO✝, Own Data (renamed from OwnBackup then acquired by Salesforce), Oxibox, 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), Plakar, 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), Quesma, 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 (acquired by Acumera), ScaleFlux, Scality, Scalytics, SendBird, Severalnines, Shade.inc, 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), Stackable, Starboard Storage Systems (acquired by SGI, itself acquired by HPE), Storadera, StorageX.ai, StorCentric✝, StorONE, StorPool, StorSimple (acquired by Microsoft), Storware, 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 (acquired by CapitalOne), Sysdig, Tabsdata, Tegile Systems (acquired by Western Digital and then by DDN), TestQL, 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), Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium, UnifabriX, Valohai, Varonis, VAST Data, VergeIO, Veritas Technologies (NetBackup business acquired by Cohesity, rest renamed Arctera now acquired by Cloud Software Group), 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), Zettalane, ZettaScale, Zoho, Zscaler and Zuora.