SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Twelfth Annual Storage Visions Conference held at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 6 & 7, 2013, features great sessions on media and entertainment technology, consumer electronics, computer applications and all aspects of digital storage with the theme of "Petabytes are the New Terabytes." More information is available on the conference at www.storagevisions.com.

The finalist products and companies for the annual Storage Visions Visionary Awards are listed below.  Congratulations to the award finalists!  As usual we had many great product and company submissions for all of these award categories.  The award winner announcements and trophy presentations will be done at the conference lunch on January 6, 2013 during the SV 2013 reception in the exhibit hall of the conference (note new time).  In addition to the award presentation there will be many great door prizes from our sponsors and exhibitors given out at the reception as well as other times during the conference.

Finalists for Visionary Products Awards:   

• Mobile Consumer Storage
  • Toshiba Hybrid HDD
  • Other World Computing Aura Pro 6G SSD
• Home Consumer Storage 
  • Connected Data Transporter Drive
  • Data Locker DL3 for Mac
  • SanDisk ReadyCache
• SOHO Storage
  • ioSafe N2 NAS
  • NETGEAR ReadyNas Duo/NV+ v2
  • Other World Computing Mercury Helios PCI Expansion Chassis
• Enabling Professional Storage Technology
  • StorSimple Cloud-Integrated Storage Solution 
  • Marvell DragonFly NVCACHE
  • Skyera Solid State Storage System
  • SMART Storage Systems CloudSpeed Server Grade SSDs
• Professional Media and Entertainment System 
  • Panasonic DataArchiver 
  • Dot Hill Systems AssuredSAN 4000 
  • Active Storage mSTATS
• Professional Media and Entertainment Storage 
  • Amplidata Amplistor AS36 Storage Module
  • Raidundant SkySAN Storage Appliance 
  • Oracle StorageTek SL150 Modular Tape Library

Finalists for Visionary Company Awards: 

• Visionary Services and Support 
  • Symform 
  • Kroll Ontrack 
• Visionary Consumer Electronics Storage  
  • SanDisk 
  • Samsung 
• Visionary Professional Storage 
  • Panasonic 
  • Intel 
• Visionary Media and Entertainment Storage  
  • Oracle 
  • MobiliTV

Finalists for Art of Storage Award: 

• Symform Cloud Storage Network 
• Connected Data Transporter 
• Data Locker DL3 for Mac

Other SV 2013 sponsors and exhibitors include the following: Active Storage is a Diamond Sponsor. Intel and SanDisk are Platinum Sponsors.  Aspera, Oracle, Smart Storage Systems and Symform are Silver Sponsors. Bronze Sponsors include Amplidata, Cadence, HDS, Marvell, SATA-IO, SNIA SSSI, Skyera, Trusted Computing Group and Toshiba.  Exhibitors are Dot Hill, Drive Savers, FlexStar, IDT, Panasonic, Raidundant, Nimble Storage and Xendata.   Samsung is the official Internet Sponsor.  Our official News Wire sponsor is PR Newswire (VPO).  Millenniata is a lunch sponsor and SugarSync is the conference picture sharing sponsor.

Our many organization and media sponsors can be found on the conference web site.

There are a limited number of sponsorships and exhibit spaces available for the 2013 Storage Visions® Conference.  For information on sponsorship and exhibit opportunities fill out the appropriate forms available on the conference web site:  www.StorageVisions.com. Interested parties can also call Storage Visions® at 408-978-8184 or email us at info@StorageVisions.com. 

Conference registration is now open at:  http://www.storagevisions.com/2013Register.htm and our discounted hotel room block (over 90% full now) at the Rivera Hotel (just across from the Las Vegas Convention Center and the CES is now open at:  http://www.storagevisions.com/2013Travel.htm.

The Storage Visions Conference is put on by the Entertainment Storage Alliance (www.EntertainmentStorage.Org) and Coughlin Associates (www.tomcoughlin.com). 

SOURCE Entertainment Storage Alliance and Coughlin Associates