Yahoo Honcho to Keynote StoragePlus

NEW YORK -- Light Reading's Byte and Switch (www.byteandswitch.com), the premier online storage networking publication, today announces that David Webster, Manager of IT Architecture & Strategy for Yahoo, will kick off the Byte and Switch StoragePlus 2006 Conference and Expo as the Opening Keynote.

StoragePlus 2006, taking place on September 12 and 13 in Burlingame, Calif., promises to be the most innovative and informative storage conference and expo of the year. This is the first event to step back and explore storage networking in its largest context. StoragePlus will explore all aspects of the storage chain – hence the title: storage plus security, plus application management, plus Web services, plus blade servers, plus managed services, and more.

Mary Jander, StoragePlus Conference Co-Chair and Site Editor for Byte and Switch, notes: "Storage is the hottest field in data center technology right now. It has evolved from an arcane, back-end science to become the cornerstone of data management. The expanding role of storage has inspired this event."

To register for StoragePlus, go to www.storageplusexpo.com. Registration for press and analysts is free.

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Amy Averbook
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Light Reading Inc.
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Byte and Switch (www.byteandswitch.com) is the flagship enterprise Web publication of CMP Technology's business unit, Light Reading Inc. As the Web's leading storage networking site, Byte and Switch delivers the latest in news, product reviews, and customer case studies, as well as Insider research reports on storage and data networking technologies.

About Light Reading
Founded in 2000, Light Reading Inc. (www.lightreading.com) is the ultimate source for technology and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. It reaches an extensive audience of executives and technologists within the telecom and enterprise networking communities, as well as the financial/industry analysts and investors who track these sectors. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005, and operates as a unit of CMP Technology.

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