FRIDAY HARBOR, WA--(Marketwired - Oct 3, 2013) - Strategic News Service (SNS) is proud to announce that Virtustream has been selected as an honored 2014 SNS FiRe Partner to be featured at its 12th annual Future in Review (FiRe) technology conference. Described by The Economist as "the best technology conference in the world," FiRe features global thought leaders in technology and the global economy, including past Centerpiece Conversations with Michael Dell, Paul Jacobs, Elon Musk, Mark Hurd, Vint Cerf, Leroy Hood, Azim Premji, Craig Venter, and many others.

Virtustream is a leading cloud innovator offering secure, efficient, enterprise-class cloud solutions to enterprises, governments, and service providers. Virtustream enables businesses to move complex production applications to the cloud -- whether private, public, or hybrid -- while delivering the cloud's full economic and business benefits. Virtustream also offers xStream™, cloud management software for private/public/hybrid clouds and the Virtustream Cloud, which provides secure, high availability, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to enterprises.

"We are very pleased to be selected as a 2014 SNS FiRe Partner," said Simon Aspinall, Chief of Vertical Markets, Strategy and Marketing at Virtustream. "Being part of this elite group provides us with the opportunity to meet the people and organizations driving the innovative technologies that are changing our world and the way we do business."

Future in Review is convened each year with the goals of providing the best look forward in technology and the global economy and of using technology to solve major world challenges. These goals have been consistently achieved through FiRe's collaboration across disparate industries and through active support from the FiRe community. FiRe 2014 will take place May 20-23 at the Montage Hotel in Laguna Beach, California.

"We look forward to working with our partners at Virtustream again and having them join the leading technology minds at the Future in Review (FiRe) technology conference. Both of our organizations share similar goals in using cutting-edge technology to improve business solutions and the world at large. I have no doubt that by working together, our impact will be much greater," said Mark Anderson, FiRe Chair and SNS CEO.

For more information and to register for FiRe 2014, go to www.futureinreview.com.

Strategic News Service was founded by Mark Anderson in 1995 as the first subscriber-based online news service. Since its inception, SNS has proven the most accurate predictive report covering technology and the global economy. Its subscribers include top managers at technology and finance companies across the globe, including Oracle, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Cisco, Intel, Google, British Telecom, SpaceX, Amazon, Telstra, and others.

SNS has been operating the annual FiRe Conference since 2003. FiRe exposes world experts and participants to new ideas, and conversations about them, producing an accurate portrait of the future; and focuses on creating technology solutions to current local and global problems. FiRe 2014 will take place May 20-23 at the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, CA. For more information and to register, go to www.futureinreview.com.

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