2005 Storage Visions Conference Announces Storage Visions Award Winners; Major Players in Entertainment and Consumer Electronics Participate.LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- The Fourth Annual Storage Visions Conference (a partner program to the 2005 International CES) awards were presented before record attending crowds at the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. in Las Vegas, Nevada. The awards were presented to companies advancing the state of the art in storage technologies utilized in consumer electronics, the media and entertainment industries, and to firms that have provided visionary products and services to the digital content value chain. David Takata, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Engage Capital, was co-sponsor with the Storage Visions Conference for the Storage Visions awards for the second year in a row. "Storage Visions has proven to be a must attend event for a growing number of companies involved in the design of digital storage products as well as their applications in the creation, editing, distribution and consumption of entertainment content," said Tom Coughlin For the former Wal-Mart executive, see . Tom Coughlin (born August 31, 1946 in Waterloo, New York) is an NFL head coach for the New York Giants. He was also the inaugural head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. , organizer of the conference since its inception. Awards were presented to all of the disk drive companies commemorating the shipment of the 2 billionth disk drive in 2004 as well as the awarding of the first ever Storage Industry Service Award named after and given posthumously post·hu·mous adj. 1. Occurring or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award. 2. Published after the writer's death: a posthumous book. 3. to Gerry Nicklas, a long-standing and well respected promoter of storage and a friend of the Storage Visions Conferences. The other award winners follow. Samsung was recognized for the first integration of a small form factor hard disk drive into a mobile phone by receiving the Mobile Consumer Electronics award. SanDisk was recognized for the introduction of the first 8 GB compact flash type 1 removable storage device and received the Mobile Storage award. The award for Integrated Home Entertainment went to Scientific Atlanta for the Explorer 8300 Multi-Room DVR (1) (Digital Video Recorder) A device that records video onto a hard disk from one or more ceiling mounted video cameras. Part of a security system, the DVR typically supports 4, 8 or 16 separate camera channels. . DigiDesign (a division of Avid) Icon music editing system was given the Production/Post-production Class System award. The award for Production/Post-Production Class Media was given to Sony for their Professional Blu-Ray disk See Blu-ray. products. Apple was given the Visionary Consumer Electronics Award for their pioneering work integrating mass storage into consumer devices and creating an infrastructure to support demand for these devices. The award for Visionary Media and Entertainment went to Microsoft for their support of the DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) A coalition of computer and consumer electronics companies that was formed to ensure interoperability in home networks. initiative to create integrated standards-based home entertainment networking. Finally the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Media and Entertainment Division was awarded the Visionary Services and Support award for their support and service in several format conversion and digitization efforts as well as new digital storage entertainment facilities. Although several semiconductor products did not fit into the above categories the judges felt that they deserved mention and Storage Visions intends to include an appropriate award for these products in 2006. These products were: The Marvell 88i6310 SoC designed for small form factor hard disk drives, the Silicon Image SteelVine Network Storage Architecture, and the Atmel ASICS ASICS Anima Sana in Corpore Sano (Japanese shoe manufacturer; Latin: a sound mind in a sound body) for storage applications. Storage Visions 2005 -- the only event focusing on digital storage and the entertainment content value chain -- is a partner of the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The conference took place at the Las Vegas Convention Center January 4 & 5, 2005. Complete details on the 2005 conference are available on the conference website, www.storagevisions.com. For more information on the 2005 conference or on the 2006 Storage Visions conference please call 408-935-8150 |
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