Quotes from our 2007 sponsors
"SNW Europe once again proved to be THE platform for the storage industry. We had many interesting discussions with customers and journalists - conversations on a very high technical and business level. Also we were very pleased about the lively interest in our tutorials. We really appreciate the service orientation and professionalism of organiser and staff. Their commitment made SNW Europe a high-level storage event. To sum up: SNW Europe was very successful for us." Christine Bachmayer, Marketing Manager Central Europe, Quantum.
"SNW Europe was bigger and better than ever this year; not only were we able to meet and identify many new contacts and decision-makers but the press presence at the conference was greater than ever. Therefore SNW Europe was the perfect vehicle to announce our new Sales Director for central Europe Frank Puetz, and our partnership with VMware consultancy Mightycare. SNW Europe is a key event in the EMEA storage industry calendar and we will be back next year." Adam Sharp, Senior Director of Marketing, EMEA, Pillar Data Systems.
"Being at SNW Europe provides Cisco another excellent opportunity to discuss and share with the storage community. The knowledge transfer and the networking between participants, sponsors and industry organisations were very constructive. SNW Europe provides the platform for information exchange within the storage & data management community." Isabel Schmidt, Marketing Manager Data Center, Cisco Systems GmbH
”SNW event is a very good event to get in touch with some of the most important IT decision makers in the storage market and a good platform to be seen as one of the best storage solution supplier worldwide.” Thomas Schreiber, Dell EMEA events.
"SNW Europe 2007 maintained the high standard that we have come to expect from the event. The conference program was excellent, which enabled us to collect a number of high quality customer leads. The press activities were particularly successful. It was a perfect opportunity for Plasmon to communicate our market message to European journalists and analysts at a single location. It's not often that an event meets all of your business objectives; SNW Europe 2007 certainly delivered." Steve Tongish, Director of Marketing, EMEA, Plasmon.
“This was our first SNW Europe and we were very happy with the results we achieved in terms of new business opportunities uncovered and in our ability to communicate Sony’s range of storage media and the newly introduced LTO Library Pack to a broad cross-section of end users and resellers at our booth and in our conference session. In fact we found the quality of the delegates in attendance to be excellent and quite well balanced between the local German market and the rest of Europe.” Claude Regnoux, Trade Marketing Manager Storage Media, Sony Europe.
“Our general conclusion is positive: the number of visitors increased, our presentations were full and we had some good discussions. The new concept with the solution showcase in the center of the exhibition area was a great idea and caused some additional discussions with prospects.” Barbara Miksch, Marcom Manager, Hitachi Data Systems GmbH.
“SNW Europe is an interesting event for the storage industry in Europe with relevant, new and interesting technologies gathered under one roof. IBM met a number of customers and partners and expects that SNW Europe will continue its perspective in the future as a marketplace for storage software and services.” Rainer Sawall, Marketing Manager, IBM Systems and Technology Group.
"This year's Storage Networking World Europe has once again proven itself to be one of the leading conferences for IT executives looking for better ways to manage data through the storage infrastructure, Likewise, we were delighted with the opportunity to meet and speak with the high calibre of end-user decision makers the event has historically attracted." Sara Buttle, Director of EMEA Marketing, F5 Networks.
“SNW Europe offers a great opportunity to educate IT professionals about the most current innovations in storage networking. What is unique about this event is the exposure presented to product companies like iStor to meet such a high quality audience of real world customers and European channel partners in the Expo plus the briefings with top storage industry analysts and IT press from all over Europe. It would have taken a month traveling throughout Europe to achieve what we did in three days at SNW.” Tim Beck, Director, EMEA Sales, iStor Networks, Inc.
“SNW Europe 2007 was again better than the year before: Quality participants, probably the most professional storage conference and exhibition in Europe. From a Fujitsu Siemens Computers perspective a great success and a must for any top five storage vendors like us. We were especially satisfied with the good feedback we received for the Hands-on Lab activities and happy about the great reception of our Virtual Tape Appliance CentricStor. It speaks for itself if a show can attract major European companies like Swisscom mobile and Belgacom.” Marcus Schneider, Director Storage Product Marketing, Fujitsu Siemens Computers.
" SNW Europe has once again attracted a well-balanced mix of end users and reseller organisations from across the region. I am confident that we will be able to turn a number of leads from the event into real business." Fiona Moon, EMEA/ANZ Marketing Director, CommVault.
“The EMEA IT market is made up of an extremely diverse set of users with varying degrees of technology requirements and challenges. SNW Europe brings together quality end users from the region and this has allowed us to meet with many organisations in a highly time-efficient and cost-effective way.” Beth White, VP of Marketing, Data Domain.
“SNW Europe proved to be an effective event at which to brief local press, meet with a broad selection of end users and engage with existing and prospective channel partners. Our vendor tutorial proved particularly well-attended and there was a very lively resultant Q+A” Phil Crocker, Director of EMEA Marketing, Isilon
"SNW Europe offered us an excellent venue for introducing our newest cached-flash solid state disk, the RamSan 500. We met many well-qualified end users and channel attendees." Woody Hutsell, Vice President, Texas Memory Systems.
"A well constructed and well managed event which attracted a good-quality audience." Bridget Levingston, European Marketing Manager, Emulex.
"A must-attend fair for any company serious about extending their presence in the EMEA market." - Douglas Gruehl, VP Marketing, ONStor.
