SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The Flash Memory Summit (FMS) today reported that 2016 registration increased 10% to almost 5,800. Actual attendance jumped 13% to over 4,600 year-over-year. FMS is now the world's largest storage conference with over 100 exhibitors and sponsors. Many keynotes drew over 1,500 attendees and multiple sessions drew well over 100. As one exhibitor put it, "The high quality visitors who stopped by our booth came from major Silicon Valley companies (and beyond) including: #Apple, #Cisco, #Intel, #SK Hynix, #MarvellSemiconductor, #Toshiba and #WesternDigital." Conference visitors from other major companies interested in enterprise storage included #Alibaba, #Amazon, #Baidu, #Brocade, #Daimler, #Facebook, #Google, #Jaguar #LandRover, #NASA Ames Research Center, #NorthrupGrumman, #Uber, and #WellsFargo. The Summit also received widespread media attention with articles in #CTimes (China), #ElectronicDesign, #Forbes, #eWeek, #PCWorld, and #Tom'sHardware. Products of significant interest included #SSDs, #NVDIMM, flash chips, flash controllers, flash-based storage systems, new non-volatile technologies, and all-flash arrays. Special conference features included keynotes by top speakers from Facebook, #Micron, #Samsung, #SanDisk, #Toshiba, #Marvell, SK Hynix, #Huawei, Seagate, Microsemi, EMC, Nimbus Data, #Crossbar, and #Mangstor. Other well-attended sessions included annual updates, market research insight, performance testing results, and a VC Forum. Session materials and conference proceedings are now freely available at: www.flashmemorysummit.com.
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