The Friction Materials Standards Institute (FMSI) Annual Membership Meeting will be held at the Longboat Key Club in Longboat Key, Florida. This year's meeting will be held from Saturday June 5th through Sunday June 6th.

There will be two major speakers at this year's meeting including Dennis DesRosiers, a leading analyst of the North American automotive industry who will discuss the developing changes in the automotive industry and the impact of those changes in the aftermarket. Also speaking with be Ken Hammann, a retired GM executive with over 37 years of experience working on various GM vehicle programs.

There will also be the routine reports concerning contributors to FMSI, brake performance developments, environmental issues, budgets, fees, etc. There will also be several opportunities,both formal and informal, to to discuss the future of the FMSI electronic catalog powered by Datastay.   

To find out more, please visit http://www.fmsi.org

The Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX) is the annual business-to-business trade show representing the global automotive aftermarket, held at the Sands Expo Center during Automotive Aftermarket Industry Week in conjunction with the SEMA Show.

Datastay will be exhibiting at the AAPEX show (The Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo) for the very first time alongside their customer, the Friction Materials Standards Institute (FMSI) at Booth # 779 in Las Vegas November 3th to the 5th. The AAPEX/SEMA 2009 conference is reserved for automotive industry professionals with more than 132,000 in attendance last year.

Datastay hosted a webinar on February 27th titled "Using Cloud Computing to Weather an Economic Storm."

During the 30 minute webinar, topics discussed included:

- What is cloud computing and Software-as-a-service (Saas)?
- How to build a competitive edge using SaaS and Cloud Computing
- How SaaS allows organizations to focus on their core competencies
- How to derive business value from your curremt IT investments

With the recent economic downturn, there has been increased pressure on IT managers and executives to stretch their budgets and make investments into worthwhile technologies that provide specific business benefits to their organizations. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions such as Datastay are on-demand and delivered over the internet helping businesses to avoid hardware upgrades and capital-equipment costs, while allowing them to focus on their core competencies.

To view the webinar, please visit this link:
www.datastay.com/servlet/resource_servlet.asp?id=25