SNW Spring 2012 to Feature CIOs and Top IT Executives From Shell Oil Company

Top CIOs and CTOs will join the IT community to discuss "Information Infrastructure for a Customer-Focused, Always-On World" at SNW Spring 2012, the leading global conference focused on managing enterprise information infrastructure across computing, networks and storage. Set to take place April 2-5 at the Omni Dallas Hotel, SNW Spring 2012 is produced by Computerworld and co-owned by Computerworld and the SNIA.

Capitalizing on its highly attended fall conference in Orlando, SNW will return to Dallas this spring with a diverse agenda of more than 120 educational sessions and presentations by top information research executives, leading product and service providers and key industry influencers addressing a wide range of today's most important IT topics, including cloud computing, energy efficient data centers, big data, virtualization and storage management, among others.

The opportunities facing IT managers today

"Given the opportunities facing IT managers today, we can think of no better focus for SNW than 'information infrastructure for a customer-focused, always-on world'," said Wayne M. Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors. "Building on this conference theme, we've assembled top industry experts and developed a program of keynotes and educational sessions that will shed new light on the innovations and leaders who are reshaping the ways technologies are being applied to propel businesses forward."

SNW is the leading global event series focused on technologies to manage and optimize the information infrastructure across the data center and remote offices -- from compute to network to storage. Throughout this four-day conference, attendees from major public and private sector organizations will learn about the latest user successes and challenges, products, tools, services and training across these technologies.

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