Market Overview
Storage and data management has been gaining more attention from enterprises as pressure on IT budget constraint and data management is being increasingly used as a method to streamline information and process flows. The accessibility and availability of information and data can be the difference between success and failure of business. In an effort to cost effectively manage continually expanding data stores and meet compliance-driven data retention requirements, many organizations have implemented disparate point solutions.  However, according to the recent survey conducted by Storage Network Industry Association reported that most of the organizations were facing the following challenges to storage management: cost containment, reliable backup and recovery solutions, managing complexity of the storage infrastructure, and lack of management tools. Therefore, it is important of organization to havean intelligent storage management strategy, in order to make its IT is empowered with knowledge and ability to take control of an out of control environment and provide real business value to the organization.

Conference Overview
The Storage Management Summit 2007 is proudly presented by eQ-events, which is co-owned by 21 Magicmedia and Computerworld Hong Kong. With the theme of "Information Management Strategies for the Future", this year's summit will provide insight and visionary views on how enterprises can develop and deploy secure, sustainable and future-proof storage strategies.