2015 Data Storage Innovation Conference Agenda

2015 Data Storage Innovation Conference Agenda

The 2016 DSI agenda is under development. In the meantime, please see the 2015 agenda below.

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Agenda times are subject to change.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015
7:30 - 8:30	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Solid State Storage	Disaster Recovery	Networking	Security	Storage Management
8:30 - 9:10	The Future of Flash in the Data Center: A Crash Course on Flash-Based Architectures and Next-Gen Design Brian Evans Global Director Flash, HGST	Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond Thomas Rivera Senior Technical Associate, HDS	Next Generation Storage Networking for Next Generation Data Centers Dennis Martin President, Demartek	Hackers, Attack Anatomy & Security Trends Ted Harrington Executive Partner, Independent Security Evaluators	Storage Strategy Development Part 1: Understanding Needs and Developing Requirements Randy Kerns Senior Strategist, Evaluator Group
9:15 - 9:55	Application Acceleration Using Flash Memory Saeed Raja Director of Product Marketing and Management, SanDisk	Data Protection in Transition to the Cloud David Chapa CTE, Seagate	Next Generation Low Latency Storage Area Networks Rupin Mohan Senior Manager Strategy and Planning, Hewlett-Packard Craig Carlson Sr. Technologist - CTO Office, QLogic Corporation	Storage Security Best Practices Eric Hibbard CTO Security and Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems	Storage Strategy Development Part 2: Evaluating, Planning and Selling the Strategy Randy Kerns Senior Strategist, Evaluator Group
10:00 - 10:40	Accelerating Real-Time, Big Data Applications Bob Hansen VP Systems Architecture, Apeiron Data Systems	DR in the Cloud Ashar Baig President, Principal Analyst and Advisor, Analyst Connection	The Continued Evolution of Fibre Channel Mark Jones President Fibre Channel Industry Association	Securing Your Data for the Journey to the Clouds Liwei Ren Senior Software Architect, Trend Micro	When Data Pools Become Data Lakes: Managing and Storing Massive Quantities of Data Lance Broell Product Marketing Manager, DataDirect Networks
10:40 - 10:55	Break
10:55 - 11:35	Solid-State Deployments - Recommendations for POC's Russ Fellows Senior Partner, Evaluator Group	Trends in Data Protection Gideon Senderov Director Advanced Storage Products, NEC	SAS: The Fabric for Storage Solutions Marty Czekalski President, SCSI Trade Association Greg McSorley Technical Business Development Manager, Amphenol, STA Vice President	Interoperable Key Management for Storage Tony Cox Director Business Development, Strategy & Alliances, Cryptsoft	DevOps and Storage Management – Improving Storage Delivery through Continuous Improvement and Automation Derek Stadnicki Partner, DiscreteIO
11:40 - 12:20	The SNIA NVM ProgrammingTWG and the NVM Revolution Walt Hubis Owner, Hubis Technical Associates	Performance	PCIe Shared IO Jeff Dodson Hardware Architect, Avago Technologies	Implementing Stored-Data Encryption Michael Willett Storage Security Strategist, Samsung	Cloud Storage
11:40 - 12:20		vSphere Performance Johnathan Paul Senior R&D Expert, Siemens Medical Solutions			How Does the Cloud Fit into Active Archiving? David Cerf Executive President Strategy and Business Development, Crossroads Systems
12:20 - 1:40	Lunch and Networking in the Innovation Showcase
1:45 - 1:50	General Sessions Welcome Remarks David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors
1:50 - 2:15	Where to Now? Considerations for Storage in the New Data Center Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Sr. Analyst, The Evaluator Group Note: Camberley will be the DSI General Sessions Emcee and "Message-Bridger"
2:20 - 3:00	More with Less: Hardware and VM Orchestration with More Uptime, Less Futzing; More Performance, Less Hardware Richard Kiene, Principal Engineer, Faithlife
3:05 - 3:45	Software-Defined Storage at Microsoft Jose Barreto, Principal Program Manager Microsoft
3:45 - 4:00	Break
4:00 - 4:40	Privacy vs Data Protection Eric Hibbard, CTO Security and Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems
4:45 - 5:25	Approaches to Challenges Facing Enterprise ICT Gideon Senderov, Director Advanced Storage Products, NEC
5:30 - 7:30	Networking Reception in Innovation Showcase

Wednesday, April 8, 2015
7:30 - 8:30	Registration Open - Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:30 - 8:45	General Sessions Welcome Back and What did We Learn from Day One? Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Analyst Evaluator Group
8:45 - 9:30	Case Study: How the Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation Modernized Backup Tonia Williams, CIO & IT Director, Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation
9:35 - 10:15	The Storage Revolution Andrea Nelson, Director of Marketing, Storage Group, Intel
10:15 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:45	Peering Into the e-Discovery Legal Looking Glass Eric Hibbard, CTO Security and Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems, with Representatives of the American Bar Association
11:50 - 12:30	Data End of Life in the Cloud: Why, When and How? Fredrik Forslund, Director - Cloud and Data Center Erasure Solutions, Blancco
12:30-1:40	Lunch and Networking in the Innovation Showcase
	Breakout Sessions
	Solid State Storage	Cold Storage	Security	File Systems	Hard Drives	IDC Analysts Briefings
1:45 - 2:25	Creating Higher Performance Solid State Storage with NVMe J Metz R&D Engineer, Cisco	Yes, Virginia, There is USB Connectivity for an LTO Tape Drive! Mauricio del Prado Senior Engineer, IBM	Encrypted Storage: Self–Encryption versus Software Solutions Michael Willett Storage Security Strategist, Samsung	SMB Remote File Protocol (Including SMB 3.x) Jose Barreto Principal Program Manager, Microsoft	The Perennial Hard Disk Drive – The Storage Industry Workhorse Edward Grochowski Consultant Thomas Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates	The Flash–Based Array Market Eric Burgener Research Director - Storage, IDC
2:30 - 3:10	3D RRAM: Towards Next Generation High Capacity Low Latency Storage Systems Sylvain Dubois Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Business Development, Crossbar, Inc	Tape Storage for Cold Data Archive and Future Technologies Osamu Shimizu Research Engineer - Recording Media Research Laboratories, FUJIFILM Corporation Hitoshi Noguchi General Manager, FUJIFILM Corporation	A Customer’s Point of View to Self Encrypting Disks Drives and Software Based Disk Encryption Douglas Spindler IT Instructor, City College San Francisco	NFS, pNFS and FedFS: A Modern Datacenter Network Protocol Alex McDonald NetApp CTO Office, NetApp	RAIDShield: Characterizing, Monitoring, and Proactively Protecting Against Disk Failures Ao Ma Principal Engineer, EMC	Adoption and Trends in Object Based Storage Amita Potnis Research Manager, IDC{C}{C}{C}{C}{C}
3:10 - 3:25	Break
	Solid State Storage	Cold Storage	Cloud Storage	Hot Topics	Hard Drives	IDC Analysts Briefings
3:25 - 4:05	How Fast is Fast? Block IO Performance on a RAM Disk Eden Kim CEO, Calypso Testers	Optical Storage - The Future of Long Term Data Preservation Doug Ferguson Senior Solution Consultant, Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corporation	Optimizing the Enterprise, Lessons Learned from Deploying Private Storage Cloud David Christel Manager, Unisys	Bringing HyperScale Computing to the Enterprise : The Need for Enterprises to Overhaul Their IT Systems Chirag Jog VP of Engineering, MSys and Clogeny	Leveraging Ubiquitous Sensors to Predict Failures and Discover Data Center Flaws Teague Algie Software Developer, Cleversafe	Data Protection 2015-2025: Fundamental Strategic Transformation Phil Goodwin Research Director, Storage Systems and Software, IDC
4:10 - 4:50	Considerations to Accurately Measure Solid State Storage Systems Leah Schoeb Storage Solutions and Performance Manager, Intel	Archival Disc Technology Yasumori Hino Manager, Panasonic Corporation Jun Nakano Deputy General Manager, Sony	Hybrid Cloud Storage with StorSimple Mike Emard Senior Program Manager StorSimple, Microsoft	Containers: Future of Virtualization & SDDC Anil Vasudeva President and Chief Analyst, IMEX Research	Health Monitoring and Predictive Analytics to Lower the TCO in a Datacenter Christian Madsen Engineering Manager, Seagate Technology Andrei Khurshudov Senior Director, Seagate Technology	Relating Information Governance to Storage Trends Sean Pike Program Director for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and eDiscovery, IDC
4:55 - 5:35	Advanced Data Dedupe	/etc	Things to Consider When Planning for File Services in a Hybrid Cloud Environment Bernhard Behn Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Avere Systems	Distributed Storage	Green Storage
4:55 - 5:35	Advanced Data Reduction Concepts Tom Sas Product Manager, Hewlett-Packard	Open Source is Changing Entire Industries Nithya Ruff Director - Open Source Strategy, SanDisk		Massively Scalable File Storage Philippe Nicolas Senior Director, Industry Strategy, Scality	Storage Systems Can Now Get ENERGY STAR Labels and Why You Should Care Dennis Martin President, Demartek
5:30 - 7:30	Networking Reception in the Innovation Showcase

Thursday, April 9, 2015
7:30 - 9:00	Registration Open - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Big Data	Software Defined Storage	Cloud Storage	Performance	Distributed Storage
9:00 - 9:40	Solving Big Data Problems: Storage to the Rescue? John Webster Senior Partner, Evaluator Group	Using Software-Defined Storage to Provide a Complete BC, DR and Data Protection Ibrahim Rahmani Director of Product Marketing, DataCore	Rethink Cloud Strategies for Cost Effective Enterprise Storage Management Lazarus Vekiarides CTO and Co-founder, ClearSky Data	Flash Cache in the Data Center-The Future is Now Wayne Lam Chairman/CEO, Cirrus Data Systems	Using Leading-Edge Building Blocks to Virtual Deploy Scale-out Data Infrastructure Craig Dunwoody CTO, GraphStream Incorporated
9:45 - 10:25	Why Scale-Out Big Data Apps Need A New Scale-Out Storage Rob Whiteley Vice President, Marketing, Hedvig	Software Defined Storage at the Speed of Flash Carlos Carrero Technical Product Manager, Symantec Rajagopal Vaideeswaran Principal Software Engineer, Symantec	Whoever Owns the Data Owns the Customer Luke Behnke Vice President Products, Bitcasa	Lies, Damn Lies, and Performance Metrics Barry Cooks Vice President of Engineering, Virtual Instruments	Is RAM the Future of Enterprise Storage? Using Distributed Fault Tolerant Memory in Virtualized Data Centers Woon Jung Senior Software Engineer, PernixData
10:25 - 10:40	Break
	Big Data	Software Defined Storage	Object Storage	Performance	Distributed Storage
10:40 - 11:20	Scaling Splunk Log Analytics without the Storage Headaches Veda Shankar Technical Marketing Manager, Red Hat	Deploying VDI with Software-Defined Storage and Hyper-convergence Michael Letschin Director of Product Management Solutions, Nexenta	Overcoming the Challenges of Storage Scale and Cost Rob McCammon Director of Product Management, Cleversafe	The Buzz About Flash Storage and Why Performance Testing is Critical: How to Implement SNIA Flash Storage Testing Methodologies for Real-World Environments Peter Murray Technical Evangelist, Load DynamiX	Next Generation Data Centers: Hyperconverged Architectures Impact On Storage Mark OConnell Distinguished Engineer, EMC
11:25 - 12:05	Protecting Data in the Big Data World Thomas Rivera Senior Technical Associate, HDS	Take a Technical Deep Dive Into Hyper-convergence and Learn How It Can Simplify IT and Support Various Virtual Workloads Kiran Sreenivasamurthy Director of Product Management, Maxta	Object Storage – Key Role in Future of Big Data Anil Vasudeva President and Chief Analyst, IMEX Research	Utilizing VDBench to Perform IDC AFA Testing Michael Ault Oracle FlashSystem Consulting Manager, IBM	Untangled: Improve Efficiency with Modern Cable Choices Dennis Martin President, Demartek
	Sessions Conclude

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2015 Data Storage Innovation Conference Agenda

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Sponsors and Partners of the 2015 Data Storage Innovation Conference Included:

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Contributing Sponsors

Industry Analyst Partners