Storage Visions Conference Backs KOM Networks’ Charitable Recycling Program
Tradeshow organizer says the effort is taking “a problem area” and using it to “do something truly philanthropic.
Earlier this quarter, KOM Networks, storage management solutions provider, announced the launch of a storage hardware recycling program benefiting Feed the Children, a U.S.-based private, international non-profit relief organization.†
Now, organizers of the 2010 Storage Visions Conference have joined up with KOM for the cause.
Essentially, the so-called “Junk-a-Juke” program employs the recycling outfit Technology Conservation Group (TCG) in tracking equipment through destruction. TCG ensures that none of the equipment ends up in a landfill. Money collected from TCG for the equipment is then donated to Feed the Children by KOM Networks.
Organizers of the 2010 Storage Visions Conference have evidently decided they could use their forum to increase visibility to the program.
The Ninth Annual Storage Visions Conference is organized by the Coughlin Associates. It will be held at the Riviera Hotel Convention Center in Las Vegas Jan. 5 and Jan. 6.
Show organizer Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates, says the trade show is the ideal forum for promoting the green, charitable effort. “With older storage systems being difficult to dispose of, KOM is taking a problem area and using it to do something truly philanthropic,” he says. “They are making lemonade. …† We are more than happy to serve lemonade for such a worthwhile cause.”
