TechTarget's Storage Decisions to Kick-Off May 15 in Chicago -- End-user Storage Information Demand Leads to Addition of Two New Cities in 2007

Information-technology (IT) media company TechTarget kicks off the 7th consecutive year of its award-winning Storage Decisions™ conferences starting in Chicago on May 15 - 17, with a return engagement to New York (September 26 - 28), and additional events scheduled for Toronto (June 6 -7), and San Francisco (December 4 - 6).

Needham, Mass. (PRWEB) May 14, 2007- Information-technology (IT) media company TechTarget kicks off the 7th consecutive year of its award-winning Storage Decisions™ conferences starting in Chicago on May 15 - 17, with a return engagement to New York (September 26 - 28), and additional events scheduled for Toronto (June 6 -7), and San Francisco (December 4 - 6). Storage Decisions is an invitation-only conference that provides highly-qualified IT storage pros the latest research, trends and expert insight on storage technologies. The decision to extend Storage Decisions to Toronto and San Francisco is being driven by increased demand from IT pros in these regions who have attended various Storage Decisions one-day seminars over the past two years.

Storage Decisions events deliver an audience composed entirely of IT end users responsible for the selection and purchase of storage products and services. Vendors are not permitted into the conference sessions and are not counted in the overall attendance of the event. Delegates must be either a financial or technical decision maker and have a minimum "active" storage budget of $1,000,000 or a storage project within the quarter valued at a minimum of $250,000. TechTarget ensures attendees meet these requirements through its in-house delegate recruitment team who reviews all applications with one-on-one phone interviews. 550 end users are expected at the Chicago event this week. Delegate highlights for the conference include:

- 42% are from companies with 10,000+ employees

- 97% are technology decision makers

- 21% are from companies with annual revenues of $10 billion or more

- 27% have annual IT budgets over $50 million

- 95% have previously purchased solutions from Storage Decisions exhibitors

Limited sponsorship opportunities ensure that the event maintains a manageable vendor-to-end user ratio. The Chicago event includes the top vendors of storage products and services, including NetApp, IBM, HP, Brocade, and CA.

"Our sponsors continue to tell us that the Storage Decisions conferences consistently deliver the highest ROI of any event in which they participate," said Mike Cotoia, vice president of TechTarget's Storage Media Group. "Based on attendee and vendor feedback from our one-day seminar series events in Toronto and San Francisco we decided to hold conferences in these cities which offer highly-engaged audiences."

All Storage Decisions conferences feature a world-class mix of independent industry analysts, authors and end users providing the best practical advice in the industry. Speakers participating in the 2007 conferences include:

- W. Curtis Preston, VP, Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies, Inc

- Steve Duplessie, Founder, Enterprise Strategy Group

- Arun Taneja, Founder & Senior Analyst, Taneja Group

- Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting

- Mark Diamond, CEO, Contoural, Inc.

Speakers at the Chicago event will include:

- Dan Pollack, Storage Manager, AOL

- Daniel Blair, VP of Information Security/Business Continuity, Bank of America

- Michael Thomas, Storage Architect, Federal Reserve Bank

- Paul Ferraro, Storage Manager, QUALCOMM

- Dan Stillmaker, Director of Storage Systems, Stanford University

- Samuel Turner, Engineering & Operations, United Airlines

- Toby Ford, CTO, USi

- Marcellus Tabor, Storage Manager, Yahoo!

For additional information about sponsorship opportunities or attending Storage Decisions, visit www.searchstorage.com.

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