Where? Congress Frankfurt, Germany When? 2nd - 3rd November 2011

We are pleased to invite you to attend the 'Powering the Cloud' events: SNW Europe, Datacenter Technologies and Virtualization World.

A consistently productive environment for delegates, these events address the key elements of your IT infrastructure and help your planning for the future. From desktop to server and storage virtualization; for all aspects of data protection, backup, recovery and management and for the technology infrastructure of the modern data centre in the cloud and beyond, the events deliver great results for us and our customers.

Some of our keynote presenters:

	Driving IT Agility through Engineered Systems. Presented by Wolfgang Kroj, Vice President EMEA Hardware PreSales, Oracle Corporation
	The next Tornado - Changes in Storage and how we can benefit.. Presented by Presented by Marcus Schneider, Head of Product Development Group Storage, Fujitsu
	Datacenter Transformation - A Pragmatic Approach to Cloud Solutions. Presented by Bryan Jones, Executive Director, EMEA Marketing, Dell
	Data Center Transformation - Cisco's Virtualization and Cloud Journey. Presented by John Manville, Cisco VP of IT Network and Data Center Services
	Building a Smarter Planet by leveraging Big Data. Presented by Dieter Münk, VP Storage, IBM Systems & Technology Group, Vice President Storage
	The call for the Storage Hypervisor. Presented by Claus Egge, DataCore Software
	Converged Storage for the Next Era of Computing. Presented by Chris Johnson, Vice President, HP Storage, HP Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)
	Effective Habits of Cloud Storage. Presented by Ronald Raffensperger, Director, Cloud Computing Marketing, Huawei Technologies
	Optimizing Storage in a Cloudy, Virtual World. Presented by Simon Robinson, Research Director, The 451 Group

For 2011 we are partnering with leading analyst house The 451 Group and their specialist research arm 'TheInfoPro' to gather data from you our delegates on how you see the latest trends in the industry affecting your own IT environments. Aimed at end-users of IT solutions, this research will be used to help shape the content of the conference sessions and participation will also give you access to key research findings from TheInfoPro on a regular basis over the next year. The survey is split into three sections so you can participate in only those areas that are relevant to you.

Click here to start the survey!

For further information please visit www.poweringthecloud.com

We are looking forward to seeing you in November.

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