Network Computing Magazine to Kick Off Four-City Event on Storage

Network Computing Shoot-Out - Storage to be held in Chicago, New York, Atlanta and San Francisco, September 2000

PRNewswire
MANHASSET, N.Y.
Aug 31, 2000

CMP Media's Network Computing (http://www.networkcomputing.com/) announced today its specialized one-day seminar on Storage will be touring four cities in September. Sponsors include: Computer Associates, IBM, Network Storage Solutions, Inc., StorageTek and Brocade Communications. Network Computing Shoot-Out - Storage will provide attendees the unique opportunity to learn about this topic from both the leading technology experts and the top technology vendors.

"Network Computing's format of challenging vendors to deliver solutions based on actual real-world situations and RFPs offer attendees the most productive and timely means to compare and contrast products and strategies, and get real answers in real time." said Fritz Nelson, Publisher, Network Computing.

  Attendees of the event will learn:

  *     How leading technology vendors measure up as they present their
        storage solutions in response to a Network Computing request for
        proposal
  *     An overview of the state of the storage market and current market
        research

"Building on our extremely successful High Availability Shoot-Out in March, Network Computing's Shoot-Out - Storage will continue to propel Network Computing forward into the must-sponsor, must-attend realm of IT specific events" said Kathryn Dopman, Director of Sales and Marketing/East. "Shoot-Outs are designed to give technology vendors the most direct access to the purchasers of today's technology, products and services, creating seminar rooms full of tremendous buying power. The Shoot-Out's unique format, quality reputation and actionable content draw together powerful groups of Network Computing readers -- the Technology Experts, who are the enablers of the digital economy," Dopman added.

The four city tour schedule is: September 12th - Hotel Inter-Continental, Chicago, September 15th - Marriott East Side, New York, September 19th - Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, and September 21st - Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco. For more information, go to: http://www.networkcomputing.com/

Network Computing (http://www.networkcomputing.com/), published by CMP Media, Manhasset, N.Y., is the technology reviews magazine powering 220,000 Technology Experts. It is the only publication that provides in-depth, comprehensive product, technology and service reviews from a real-world perspective to active technology buyers. The publication is the SOURCE for Technology Experts to go to when they are ready to buy. Network Computing tells them what works, how it works and who to buy it from. In addition, the publication consistently has the largest average-issue audience among all networking publications, according to Simmons and IntelliQuest.

About CMP Media Inc.

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SOURCE: CMP Media Inc.

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