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EMC (NYSE: EMC) earlier this month held the first of four regional forums intended to give customers insight into where the storage giant is heading, and the picture that emerged is one of a company whose ambitions have moved beyond mere data storage to managing the enterprise-wide "information infrastructure." The first Forum 2008, held in Long Beach, Calif., on August 14, focused on integration of EMC products with VMware (NYSE: VMW) and RSA Security, greater virtualization functionality, the new Clariion CX4 series, consumer product plans and solid state flash drives. While EMC didn't intend to feature flash, it came up in session after session and became the dominant undercurrent of the day. "Very soon, we all will be using flash drives," said Dave Nicolson, a technology consultant at EMC. "There are a lot more flash OEMs now, so the price decrease in the next 12 months will be even greater than the 45 percent drop we have already seen in the first six months of this year." Packed House RELATED ARTICLES Will Solid State Drives Go Beyond Enterprise? Clariion Refresh Could Trigger New SAN Trend EMC, Iomega to Tie The Knot EMC Links Cloud Storage, Hard Drives For more stories on this topic: When the company started these one-day jaunts five years ago, 150 customers showed up at the L.A. event. This year, 1,000 attended. They were served up a keynote and six tracks: Technology and Storage Innovation; Enabling the... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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