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Storage Hits The Strip... Again: Page 2 of 3

As one analyst described the city to me yesterday: Every time you go outside, you feel like you need to go back to your room for a shower.”

To make matters worse, the vast hotels and conference centers often require the navigation skills of Ferdinand Magellan if you want to get to a meeting or press conference on time.

Still, the world’s gambling mecca possesses an abundance of cheap accommodations (not to mention Blue Man Group), a fact which seems to have made it the venue of choice for the storage industry.

Also, it’s not as if anyone is boycotting the place. EMC has successfully lured more than 9000 people to its annual get-together this week, proving that Glitter Gulch still has plenty of pull with users and vendors (if not with me).

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  • EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC)
  • Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC)
  • VMware Inc.