SYS-CON Events announced today that Bycast, the leading provider of storage virtualization software for large-scale digital archives and storage clouds, was named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California.

The event is expected to attract over 1,500 developers, engineers, architects, IT managers, and hardware and software professionals of every stripe.

Bycast is the leading provider of storage virtualization software that enables private and public storage clouds. Bycast StorageGRID allows cloud storage providers, or IT departments running their operation as a service, to deliver storage and archiving as a service. The software offers robust facilities for provisioning, managing, and tracking storage services. StorageGRID is sold globally through OEM relationships with two of the world’s major storage vendors and has hundreds of installations in over nineteen countries.