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

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With participation of Clockwork, Cohesity, CTera, DDN, Hammerspace, Phison, ScaleFlux and VergeIO

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Paris, France - September 10, 2026 - The IT Press Tour, a leading media event launched in June 2010, today unveiled participating companies*

for the coming 70th edition organized in Silicon Valley the week of October 5, 2026.

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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 8 companies. By alpha order they're: Clockwork, Cohesity, CTera, DDN, Hammerspace, Phison, ScaleFlux and VergeIO.

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"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.

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With quotes from some participating companies for this coming edition:

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• 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."

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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, Clockwork, 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, Cybee, 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 (acquired by Google), 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, ExpectedIT, 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, IO River, 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, Paradigm4, 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, StratoFoundry, 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, Veridion, 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), Vinchin, 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), WaveDomain, 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.