ADVISORY/'Storage + Optical Networking = The Content Big Bang'; Mike Ruettgers, CEO of EMC, to Keynote at Networld+Interop 2000 Atlanta September 26.Business/Technology Editors NetWorld Interop Atlanta 2000 ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Nov. 26) --(BUSINESS WIRE) As a recent headline from Money.com put it: "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. Mike Ruettgers is the King of Data Storage." Mike has built EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. into one of the most powerful high-tech franchises in the world-$7 billion in sales, more than $1 billion in net income, and some 20,000 employees in 50 countries. In 1998 BusinessWeek named Mike one of the "World's Top 25 Executives." Worth magazine has named Mike to its list of the 50 Best CEOs in America-twice. As a follow-up follow-up, n the process of monitoring the progress of a patient after a period of active treatment. follow-up subsequent. follow-up plan to Mr. Ruettgers' N+I keynote keynote /key·note/ (ke´not) in homeopathy, the characteristic property of a drug that indicates its use in treating a similar symptom of disease. , EMC will host a live Internet chat session focusing on the rapid emergence of optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. and its impact on enterprise storage networking. Jim Rothnie, EMC's Senior Vice President of Product Management, will field questions and comments over the net. You can join the chat in the EMC booth at N+I or through any Internet connection. Here are the details: N+I 2000 Atlanta September 26-28 Georgia World Congress Center The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million ft2 (130,000 m2) and hosts more than a million visitors each year. , Atlanta EMC at N+I: No. 1749 at the N+I trade show Mike Ruettgers Keynote: Tuesday, September 26, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. ET, Ballrooms II and III, Level 4 EMC Internet Chat with Jim Rothnie: Wednesday, September 27, 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET, at www.emc.com For more on N+I 2000 Atlanta, click on (http://www.key3media.com/interop/atlanta2000/> |
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