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Coming soon to a city near you: a glimpse of the future of information management. StorageTek (Storage Technology Corporation, the leading provider of enterprise information lifecycle management, today announced a nine city event series designed to showcase the latest entries in StorageTek's advanced data storage and protection solution portfolio. StorageTek's 'Technology Showcase' event series will provide IT directors, managers and storage professionals with a unique opportunity to explore new solutions aimed at improving primary storage productivity, simplifying backup and recovery, and enabling a flexible compliance and archiving architecture. "Customers from all over the world look to StorageTek for world-class storage solutions that protect and automate the movement and management of their critical information assets," said Brenda Zawatski, StorageTek vice president and general manager, Information Lifecycle Management Solutions. "With this event series, we are taking these solutions on the road to cities all over the U.S. to offer a first-hand look at how the next-generation of tape, disk and virtual storage solutions from StorageTek can deliver immediate benefits to their datacenter operations and their companies' bottom lines." At these events, StorageTek will showcase several of its recently-introduced and soon to be available solution offerings, such as the StreamLine SL8500 and SL500 modular tape library systems, FlexLine 600 disk storage system, Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) Open system, Global Storage Manager software, and Lifecycle Fixed Content Manager™ 100 system. StorageTek's Technology Showcase events will be coming to the following cities on these dates (two sessions per day/location): February 22 - Portland, OR, at Embassy Suites February 23 - Charlotte, NC, at Carolina Panthers Bank of America Stadium February 24 - Charlotte, NC, at Carolina Panthers Bank of America Stadium March 1 - Atlanta, GA, at StorageTek's Offices March 2 - Atlanta, GA, at StorageTek's Offices March 10 - Sacramento, CA, at Embassy Suites March 10 - Manhattan, NY, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel March 11 - Manhattan, NY, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel March 15 - San Jose, CA, at the DoubleTree Hotel March 15 - Newark, NJ, at the Marriott Newark Liberty/International Airport March 16 - Newark, NJ, at the Marriott Newark Liberty/International Airport There is no cost to attend these events, but space is limited. To register for these events and learn more about the specific solutions to be demonstrated in your city, visit http://www.storagetek2005.com/technologyshowcase or call 1.800.786.7835.