San Jose, CA—August 11, 2014—The Fourteenth Annual Storage Visions Conference Visionary Award submissions are now open. The award winners will be announced during the reception at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 4, 2015. Award submissions can be made using the on-line form at: http://www.storagevisions.com/2015Awards.htm. The conference theme is: Storage with Intense Network Growth (SWING). Speaker submissions as well as hotel and conference registration are now open.
The Storage Visions Awards now cover significant products, services and companies in many digital storage markets. The 2015 Visionary Awards are described below:
Visionary Products Awards
MOBILE CONSUMER STORAGE: Mobile personal storage and systems utilizing onboard digital storage featuring small packaging, shock resistance, remote access and low-power usage.
HOME CONSUMER STORAGE: Advanced development of digital storage devices and media used in domestic consumer electronics systems.
ENABLING STORAGE TECHNOLOGY: Visionary components and software technology enabling next generation consumer and media devices.
HOME ENTERTAINMENT: Innovative use of digital storage in the home environment or to support home access to personal or commercial content.
PROFESSIONAL CLASS SYSTEMS: Systems using digital storage technologies supporting the media and entertainment industry.
PROFESSIONAL CLASS STORAGE: Advanced development of digital storage technologies, devices and media used by the media and entertainment industry.
Visionary End User Awards
These awards recognize end users with innovative storage solutions for real world problems. These solutions can be for any purpose where digital content is created, distributed, preserved or archived including transaction and database processing, medical image storage, content delivery, post production, content capture and archiving and digital preservation and other uses. There are three awards:
Visionary High Performance Storage Application This award recognizes the innovative use of storage solutions for high performance applications.
Visionary Content Storage Application
This award recognizes the innovative use of storage solutions for storing large amounts of content, either locally or in the cloud.
Visionary Archiving or Digital Preservation Application This award recognizes the innovative use of storage solutions for digitizing and preserving content and/or for long term archiving.
Visionary Company Awards
A special award in three categories will be presented to firms that have shown extraordinary dedication to the development and support of the show theme:
“Advancing the state of the art in storage technologies utilized in consumer electronics, enterprise applications, and to service firms that support those businesses.”
Categories for this most coveted award include:
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
PROFESSIONAL AND ENTERPRISE
SERVICES AND SUPPORT
The Art of Storage Award
This award recognizes innovations in design for customer ease of use and good industrial design in digital storage applications, storage media and digital storage devices. The award also recognizes appealing and clever aesthetic features in digital storage applications, devices and media.
Initial sponsors and exhibitors are Coughlin Associates, Corning, DriveSavers, HDDFA, RDC and SATA-IO. Speaking submissions are now being accepted through September 15, 2014 at http://www.storagevisions.com/2015SpeakerCall.htm, and the conference preliminary agenda can be seen at: http://www.storagevisions.com/2015Agenda.htm.