2009 Creative Storage Conference Announces Sponsorships by Network Appliance and Focus Enhancements

San Jose, CA, March 05, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The Third Annual Creative Storage Conference (CS09) will be held in conjunction with the 2009 NAB Show at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas on April 19, 2009. Conference registration is now open at www.creativestorage.org.

Network Appliance and Focus Enhancements are Bronze sponsors of the 2009 Creative Storage Conference. Data Direct Networks is a Silver Sponsor. NetApp and Focus Enhancements supply storage products for the professional media and entertainment industry. Focus Enhancement has also donated one of their FS-5 Portable DTE Recorders that will be given away as a door prize to an attendee of the 2009 Creative Storage Conference. The FS-5 brings direct to edit recording to your HDV or DV camcorder and enables adding customer metadata while recording.

Shinobu Fujihara is a software architect from IBM and Chair of the Technology Committee of SNIA Japan. He will give an interesting and comprehensive morning keynote talk on Approaches to Media and Entertainment Digital Preservation at the 2009 Creative Storage Conference. Fujihara-san has been involved with data storage technologies since 1984 and has been working on the requirements of the Media & Entertainment industry. He is very involved with the Storage Networking Industry Association Long Term Retention group who he is representing with this talk.

Media and Organization Sponsors of the 2009 Creative Storage Conference include Blu-ray Disc Association, Content Delivery and Storage Association, Davis Consulting Asia, the Diffusion Group, Digital Media Net, Fibre Channel Industry Association, Home Toys, InfoStor, MediaTech, MESA, NapkinLinks, Parks Associates, Post, SCSI Trade Association, SNIA, The Shindler Perspective and the Visual Effects Society. They welcome their media and organization sponsors for the third annual Creative Storage Conference.

Sponsorships and exhibits are still available for the 2009 Creative Storage Conference. Several levels of conference, web site and event sponsorship are available. Information on the sponsorship and exhibit opportunities are available at http://www.creativestorage.org/2009SponsorCall.htm.

For 2009 Creative Storage Conference registration, visit http://www.creativestorage.org/2009Register.htm. We also have a limited block of discounted rooms at the conference hotel for the evening of April 19. To reserve your room please go to http://www.creativestorage.org/2009Travel.htm.

For additional information on the conference call 408-871-8808 or email info@creativestorage.org.

About Coughlin Associates: Coughlin Associates puts on the Creative Storage Conference through the Entertainment Storage Alliance. Coughlin Associates provides digital storage and applications consulting, market and technology analysis and conference organizing. More information is available about Coughlin Associates at www.tomcoughlin.com.

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