Every year there are several shows and conference vendors throw to show off new products, show their customers a good time, or give the media a chance to see their wares in a "hands on" fashion (along with access to some of the powers that be for interviews). StorageReview attends a handful of these shows every year, and would not be offended to go to a few shows hosted in Hawaii in the colder months, or any time. Here is a list of some of the major shows coming up with their whens and wheres.
- Google Cloud Platform Next: March 8-10, 2017 in San Francisco, California
- Red Hat Summit: May 2-4, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts
- OpenStack Summit: May 8-11, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts
- Dell EMC world: May 8-11, 2017 at the Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada
- VeeamOn: May 16-18, 2017 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana
- Citrix Synergy: May 23-25 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida
- HPE Discover: Not final but tentatively June 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Cisco Live: June 25-29,2017 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada
- VMWorld: August 27-31 in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Veritas Vision: September 18-20, 2017 at the Aria Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Microsoft Ignite: September 25-29, 2017 in Orlando, Florida
- Oracle OpenWorld: October 1-5 in San Francisco, California
- NetApp Insight: October 2-5, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada
- AWS re:Invent: November 27-December 1 in Las Vegas, Nevada
- IBM Edge: Date not set yet, location, probably Las Vegas, Nevada
- Huawei Connect: Neither date nor location is set yet, but most likely August or September in either Beijing or Shenzhen, China
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