 Hi everyone, this is Dave Vellante of Wikibon, and I want to talk to you today about Storage Summit. Storage Summit is a 12-city road show that we're doing sponsored by Oracle. I'm very excited about Storage Summit because it affords me an opportunity to meet with infrastructure practitioners all over North America, from Atlanta to Calgary to New York, San Diego, and a number of cities in between. As part of Storage Summit, I'm also hosting several crowd chats with my partner John Furrier. Crowd chats are a tweet chat application that we use to engage audiences and share ideas. You can check out crowdchat.net-slash-storage-summit to see what we've been up to on social media. There have been some great conversations that pivot off of the road show that we're doing. The great thing about crowd chats is their threaded conversation, so it's easy to follow along. Unlike tweet chats, the conversations are automatically transcripted so you can go back and experience the discussion long after it's over. Now, I want to talk to you a little bit about Storage Summit. I've been an analyst in the IT business for several decades now, and I can't remember when I've seen such huge disruptions coming from so many different directions. At the highest level, I've been talking to customers on the road show about cloud, mobile, social, and of course, big data, and what those mean for you and in the future. But we're also drilling down into some detailed research findings from various studies that we've done here at Wikibon. Now, if you don't know Wikibon, we're a research community comprising 18,000 IT pros, and everything we do is open and freely available on our Wiki. Our research is written for and often by business technology practitioners. And to maintain our independence, we have a very strict policy that our sponsors don't get to see the research notes until they hit the Wiki. Now, when we do research at Wikibon, we heavily rely on feedback from practitioners to develop our findings. We build economic models and test them with real users. We don't just take what a vendor says at face value. Rather, we dig, we confirm, challenge, report back to our audience our findings and our recommendations. So on the storage summit road show, I'm unveiling some fresh research specifically related to flash and also archiving. On the flash front, we'll take a deep dive into flash first hybrid architectures and compare them to other approaches like flash cash and all flash arrays. Where do flash first architectures make sense? Which use cases will excel? What are the cost tradeoffs involved? How and how fast should you think about moving to flash? Now, on the archiving side, we look at flash and its impact on traditional spinning disk and, believe it or not, tape. Yes, tape. Tape is making a comeback because the costs are so compelling and in the right use cases, performance can actually be better than disk. Really, you ask? Yes, really. And if you come to the storage summit, I'll explain why and suggest ways you can cut costs and deliver more value to your organization. So look for a storage summit road show in your city and check out crowdchat.net slash storage summit to see the latest action on social. This is Dave Vellante of Wikibon.org and we'll see you next time.