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January 7, 2010

2010 Storage Visions Conference Announces Storage Visions Award Winners

Record Attendance at 9th Annual Conference

Las Vegas, NV - January 7, 2010 - The Ninth Annual Storage Visions Conference (partner program to the 2010 International CES) awards were presented before an large and enthusiastic crowd at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The awards recognized companies advancing the state of the art in storage technologies utilized in consumer electronics, the media and entertainment industries, and visionary products for the digital content value chain.

The awards included the Fourth Storage Visions Art of Storage award, recognizing a product for its best-in-class aesthetics, ease of use and industrial design. The winner of the 2010 Art of Storage award was Verbatim's Insight portable hard disk drive.

Visionary Products Category:

• Toshiba's 64 Gb SDXC Memory card was awarded the Mobile Consumer Electronics Storage award
• The Home Consumer Electronics Storage award was won by the Micron RealSSD C300.
• The award for Integrated Home Entertainment went to Seagate Technology for their FreeAgend Theater+.
• The award for Professional Media and Entertainment System went to the Nethra Fastpipe Server Storage IO System.
• The award for Professional Media and Entertainment Storage was given to Spectra Logic T-Finity storage series.

Visionary Company Awards:

• Intel was given the Visionary Mobile Consumer Electronics Company award for low cost storage for storage products used in mobile computer applications.
• Marvell was given the Visionary Home Consumer Electronics Company award for the Plug Computing Initiative.
• The award for Visionary Media and Entertainment Company went to Avid for storage products supporting professional media and entertainment applications.
• The Visionary Service and Support Company award went to IoSafe for Novel Disaster Recovery Solutions.

Congratulations to all the winners and finalists of the 2010 Storage Visions Awards and thanks to all the companies that submitted products, as well as the award judges. The choice of winners of the various awards was difficult due to the excellent quality of the submissions.

Storage Visions 2010 - the premier event focusing on digital storage and the entertainment content value chain took place at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center January 5 & 6, 2010. Complete details on the 2010 conference are available on the conference website, www.storagevisions.com or call 408-978-8184.

Contact:
Tom Coughlin
Coughlin Associates
408.871.8808
tom@tomcoughlin.com

Contact Agency:
Andy Marken
Marken Communications
408.986.0100
andy@markencom.com