Re: Operation Toy Drive 2014

Dear Partners and Friends:

This is our fourth year of Operation Toy Drive. Thanks to last year’s generous support, we were able to provide toys to over one thousand children in 5 New York shelters and one hospital. This year, we plan to reach as many local shelters as we can. We personally go directly to the shelters and distribute the toys into the hands of the children. Our goal is to be able to provide each child with two gifts.

We are requesting new toys for children 0-18 years of age; lightly used items for infants are also acceptable. For the older children, we are requesting new clothes, girl’s accessories, gift sets, gift cards, sports and athletic toys such as basketballs, soccer balls and footballs. Please do not wrap the gifts.

The deadline for any form of donation is December 19th, 2014.

If you would like to volunteer time and/or resources, we need as much help as possible to be able to provide for these children that will more likely only receive these gifts for Christmas. We will be going into the shelters starting on Saturday December 20th through December 24th. If you are able to provide or assist with this service, it would be greatly appreciated!

Sincerely,

Operation Toy Drive!

Topics:
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Who is gaining / losing share

Cloud Storage impact

AFA, SSDs, HDDs

Consolidation / M&A

Potential wildcards / surprises in 2015

Industry Attendees:
Joe Viviano – Sr. Manager, Specialist System Engineers at EMC
Val Bercovici – Office of the CTO at NetApp
Bill Bodei – Sr Sales Director at Kaminario which develops and provides solid-state storage system, networking, operating systems, BI and data processing products and solutions.
John Zamites – Business Unit Executive Flash Systems at IBM
Kaitlin Brodrick – Mid Market Geo Territory Manager at EMC
Steven Kaner – Vice President of OEM Sales at PNY Technologies
Joe Conwell – Chief Solutions Architect, Storage & AWS Infrastructure at Day1 Solutions
Thomas Coughlin – President & Owner at Coughlin Associates
Ryan Crosby – Managing Director, Global Head of Integrated Business Strategy at GBIC Partners. GBIC Partners provide services to technology and data functions across all different industries based on back, middle and front office positions supporting the overall desired business goals. Former Global Head of Business Integrated Solutions at Morgan Stanley.
Walter Bentley – Cloud Solutions Architect at Rackspace
Sumit Puri – Co Founder & VP of Marketing at Stealth Storage Start-Up. Former Sr Director Strategic Marketing at SandForce.
Gabe Leavell – Strategic Account Manager at Lincoln Computer Services
Bryan Samson – Sales Exec. at Mainline Storage Systems and works primarily with NA Flash Storage Sales