ORLANDO, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 04/08/09 -- Storage Networking World (SNW) today announced that end-user attendance at its Spring 2009 conference, taking place at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida, is comparable to its Spring and Fall 2008 events that took place prior to the macroeconomic crisis in late 2008. SNW is co-owned by Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association.

"Despite restrictions on corporate travel budgets, the storage user community wants and needs to learn about the latest trends, technologies and new product offerings," said Derek Hulitzky, Vice President, Event Marketing and Conference Programs at Computerworld. "When the financial crisis emerged last fall, SNW, Computerworld and the SNIA had already taken measures to make sure users were well informed to come to SNW."

KEY FACTS:

--  With one full day remaining at SNW Spring 2009, user attendance at SNW
    Spring 2009 is 93% of final user attendance at SNW Fall 2008.
--  The geographic audience mix of users attending SNW Spring 2009 has
    shifted from SNW Spring 2008 and SNW Fall 2008.  While the volume and
    storage responsibility of user representation has remained consistent with
    SNW's 2008 conferences, a higher representation of users from Central
    Florida are at SNW Spring 2009.  Despite that adjustment, a considerable
    number of users are attending SNW Spring from across the country and
    internationally.
--  Corporate travel restrictions have affected IT vendor companies
    attending SNW.  While a volume of sponsoring companies are represented at
    SNW Spring 2009, the world's largest storage networking event, those
    companies have sent fewer representatives per sponsoring company.
--  Attendees at SNW Spring 2009 are taking advantage of consistently
    popular educational tracks and more than 150 sessions, including 3 new and
    well-attended Summits at SNW covering Cloud Computing, Virtualization and
    Solid State Storage.
    

SNW Fall 2009 will take place October 12-15, 2009, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix, Arizona. Submissions to the call for presentations can be made at www.snwusa.com

About Computerworld

Computerworld is the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (www.computerworld.com), weekly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest (40+ edition) global IT media network. In the past five years alone, Computerworld has won more than 100 awards, including Folio Magazine's 2006 Gold EDDIE Award for the best technology/computing magazine, the 2004 and 2006 Magazine of the Year Award, and 2006 Best Overall Web Publication from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). In addition, in 2007 Computerworld's then editor in chief, Don Tennant, received the prestigious Timothy White Award from American Business Media. Computerworld leads the industry with an online audience of over 2 million unique, monthly visitors and a print audience of 1,222,000 readers each week (IntelliQuest CIMS Spring 2007).

About the SNIA

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not-for-profit global organization, made up of some 400 member companies spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA's mission is to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting standards, technologies, and educational services to empower organizations in the management of information. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For additional information, visit the SNIA web site at www.snia.org.