2016 Storage Developer Conference Agenda - Redirect

2016 Storage Developer Conference Agenda - Redirect

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Note: Tentative Agenda - speaker assignments and session times are subject to change.

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

Optional Pre-Conference Primer: Sunday, September 18, 2016

(Primer sessions are included with SDC full-conference registration. If you are not registered for SDC, there is a $49.00 fee for this afternoon of sessions. If you register for just the primer sessions and choose to attend SDC, your $49 fee will be applied toward your full conference pass.)

11:00 - 2:00

Registration Opens

1:00- 5:00

Click here for the Sunday Pre-conference Primer Agenda

Monday, September 19, 2016
7:30- 8:30	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Cloud	Filesystems	NVMe over Fabrics	Storage Management	Hardware
8:30-9:20	Introduction to OpenStack Cinder Sean McGinnis Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Dell Walter A Boring IV Software Engineer, HPE	Design of a WORM Filesystem Terry Stokes Principal Software Engineer, EMC/Isilon	NVMe over Fabrics - High Performance Flash moves to Ethernet Rob Davis VP Storage Technology, Mellanox	What One Billion Hours of Spinning Hard Drives Can Tell Us? Gleb Budman CEO, Backblaze	The Curse of Areal Density Ralph Weber Consultant, ENDL Texas
9:30-10:20	Cloud Access Control Delegation David Slik Technical Director, NetApp	MarFS: Near-POSIX Access to Object-Storage Jeff Inman Software Developer, Los Alamos National Laboratory Gary Grider HPC Div Director, LANL	NVMe Over Fabrics Support in Linux Christoph Hellwig	Managing Data by Objectives Douglas Fallstrom Senior Director of Product Management, Primary Data	Characterizing the Evolution of Disk Attributes via Absorbing Markov Chains Rachel Traylor Research Scientist, EMC
10:20-10:35	Break
10:35- 11:25	USB Cloud Storage Gateway David Disseldorp Engineer, SUSE Linux	Data Integrity support for Silent Data Corruption in Gfarm File System Osamu Tatebe Professor, University of Tsukuba	Persistent Memory	The Data Feedback Loop: Using Big Data to Enhance Data Storage Shannon Loomis Data Scientist, Nimble Storage	Storage Networking
			The SNIA NVM Programming Model Doug Voigt Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise		Peformance Implications of User-space iSCSI Extensions for RDMA Initiator in Libiscsi Idan Burstein Storage Architect, Mellanox Roy Shterman Software Engineer, Mellanox
11:35- 12:25	How to Ensure OpenStack Swift & Amazon S3 Conformance for Storage Products & Services Supporting Multiple Object APIs Ankit Agrawal Solution Developer, Tata Consultancy Services Sachin Goswami Solution Architect, Tata Consultancy Services	Optimizing Every Operation in a Write-optimized File System Speaker TBA	Enabling Remote Access to Persistent Memory on an IO Subsystem Using NVM Express and RDMA Stephen Bates Sr. Technical Director, Microsemi	Hyper-V Windows Server 2016 Storage QoS and Protocol Updates Matt Kurjanowicz Senior Software Engineer Lead, Microsoft	Testing
					Uncovering Distributed Storage System Bugs in Testing (not in Production!) Shaz Qadeer Principal Researcher, Microsoft Cheng Huang Senior Researcher, Microsoft
12:30- 1:30	Lunch and Networking
	Cloud	Filesystems	Persistent Memory	Storage Management	Track Title Pending
1:30- 2:20	Deploying and Optimizing for Cloud Storage Systems using Swift Simulator Gen Xu Performance Engineer, Intel Zhaojuan Bian Engineer Manager, Intel	Hardware Based Compression in Ceph OSD with BTRFS Weigang Li Software Engineer, Intel Anjaneya (Reddy) Chagam Principle Engineer, Intel	There and Back Again, a Practical Presentation on Using Storage Class Memory With Applications Mat Young VP of Marketing, Netlist Chad Dorton App Architect, Netlist	Time to Say Good Bye to Storage Management with Unified Namespace, Write Once and Reuse Everywhere Paradigm Anjaneya Chagam Principal Engineer, Intel	Pending Speaker Confirmation
2:30- 3:20	Hyper Converged Cache Storage Infrastructure For Cloud Yuan Zhou Software Engineer, Intel APAC R&D Chendi Xue Software Engineer, Intel APAC R&D	Efficient Data Tiering in GlusterFS Rafi KC Software Engineer, Red Hat India	Challenges with Persistent Memory in Distributed Storage Systems Dan Lambright Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat	Overview of Swordfish: Scalable Storage Management Richelle Ahlvers Principal Storage Management Architect, Broadcom	Cold Data Storage
					Introducing the View of SNIA Japan Cold Storage Technical Working Group on "Cold Storage" Kazuhiko Kawamura Senior Manager - System Engineering, Sony Corporation
3:20- 3:35	Break
3:35- 4:25	Object Storage	Multi-Chance Scalable ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache) Shailendra Tripathi Architect, Tegile Systems	Building on The NVM Programming Model – A Windows Implementation Paul Luse Principal Engineer, Intel Chandra Kumar Konamki Sr Software Engineer, Microsoft	Swordfish Deep-dive: Scalable Storage Management Richelle Ahlvers Principal Storage Management Architect, Broadcom	Data Preservation
	Cutting the Cord: Why We took the File System Out of Out Storage Nodes Manish Motwani Backend Storage Software Architect, Cleversafe, an IBM Company				Long Term Retention of Data and the Impacts to Big Data Storage Shawn Brume Business Line Executive, Data Retention Infrastructure, IBM, The LTO Program, IBM
4:35- 5:25	New Fresh Open Source Object Storage Laurent Denel CEO and Co-founder, OpenIO	Software Defined Storage	Breaking Barriers: Making Adoption of Persistent Memory Easier Sarah Jelinek SW Architect, Intel	SMB	The Role of Active Archive in Long-Term Data Preservation Peter Faulhaber Chairman of the Board, Active Archive Alliance
		Storage Spaces Direct - A Software Defined Storage Architecture Vinod Shankar Principal Development Lead, Microsoft		SMB3.1.1 and Beyond in the Linux Kernel: Providing Optimal File Access to Windows, Mac, Samba and Other File Servers Steven French Principal Systems Engineer: Protocols, Samba Team/Primary Data
5:30- 7:00	Plugfest Open House and Reception

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016
7:30- 8:45	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	General Sessions
8:45- 9:00	Welcome Remarks David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors
9:00- 9:45	Cloud Architecture in the Data Center and the Impact on the Storage Ecosystem: A Journey Down the Software Defined Storage Rabbit Hole Dan Maslowski, Global Engineering Head, Citi Storage/Engineered Systems, Citigroup
9:45-10:25	Session Topic to be Announced Industry Luminary - Pending Speaker Confirmation
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Session Topic to be Announced Industry Luminary - Pending Speaker Confirmation
11:20-12:00	Session Topic to be Announced Industry Luminary - Pending Speaker Confirmation
12:00- 1:00	Lunch and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Object Storage	Erasure Coding	Persistent Memory	SMB	SMR
1:00- 1:50	Dynamic Object Routing Balaji Ganesan Director Of Engineering, Cloudian Bharat Boddu Principal SW Eng, Cloudian	Modern Erasure Codes for Distributed Storage Systems Srinivasan Narayanamurthy Member Technical Staff, NetApp	Experience and Lessons from Accelerating Linux Application Performance Using NVMp Vinod Eswaraprasad Chief Architect, Wipro Technologies	SMB3 and Linux - A Seamless File Sharing Protocol Jeremy Allison Engineer, Samba Team/Google	The Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) Revolution – Data Management Techniques Examined Tom Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates
2:00- 2:50	Storage Solutions for Private Cloud, Object Storage Implementation on Private Cloud, MAS/ACS Ali Turkoglu Principle Software Engineer Manager, Microsoft Mallikarjun Chadalapaka Principle PM, Microsoft	Fun with Linearity: How Encryption and Erasure Codes are Intimately Related Jason Resch Senior Software Architect, IBM	In-memory Persistence: Opportunities and Challenges Dhruva Chakrabarti Research Engineer, Hewlett Packard Labs	Improving DCERPC Security Stefan Metzmacher Developer, SerNet/Samba Team	ZBC/ZAC Support in Linux Damien Le Moal Sr. Manager, Western Digital
2:50- 3:05	Break
3:05- 3:55	Heterogeneous Architectures for Implementation of High-capacity Hyper-converged Storage Devices Michaela Blott Principal Engineer, Xilinx/Research Endric Schubert PhD, CTO & Founder, MLE	Next Generation Scale-Out NAS Pierre Evenou CEO and Co-founder, Rozo Systems Didier Feron CTO, Rozo Systems	Low Latency Remote Storage: A Full-stack View Tom Talpey Architect, Microsoft	SMB3 in Samba – Multi-Channel and Beyond Michael Adam Architect and Manager, Red Hat	ZDM: Using an STL for Zoned Media on Linux Shaun Tancheff Software Engineer, AeonAzure LLC
4:05- 4:55	Object Storage Analytics : Leveraging Cognitive Computing For Deriving Insights And Relationships Sandeep Patil Master Inventor, IBM Pushkar Thorat Software Engineer, IBM	Optimize Storage Efficiency & Performance with Erasure Coding Hardware Offload Dror Goldenberg VP of Software Architecture, Mellanox Technologies	RDMA Extensions for Accelerating Remote PMEM Access - HW and SW Considerations, Architecture, and Programming Models Chet Douglas Principal SW Engineer, Intel	Clustered Samba Challenges and Directions Volker Lendecke Developer, Samba Team/SerNet	Pending Speaker Confirmation
5:00- 7:00	Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase
	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, contact Arnold Jones at arnold.jones@snia.org

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
7:30- 8:45	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	General Sessions
8:45-9:00	Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Chair
9:00-9:45	MarFS: A Scalable Near-POSIX File System over Cloud Objects for HPC Cool Storage Gary Grider, HPC Div Director, LANL
9:45-10:25	Session Topic to be Announced Industry Luminary - Pending Speaker Confirmation
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Session Topic to be Announced Industry Luminary - Pending Speaker Confirmation
11:20-12:00	Session Topic to be Announced Industry Luminary - Pending Speaker Confirmation
12:00-1:00	Lunch and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Performance	Security	Solid State Storage	SMB	Hyperscaler
1:00-1:50	IOPS: Changing Needs Jim Handy General Director, Objective Analysis Thomas Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates	Storage Security Evolution and Advancements in NVMe Interactions Jason Cox Security Architect, Intel	The Coming of Ultra-low Latency SSDs Tien Shiah Product Marketing Manager, Samsung	SMB Server: Kernel versus User Space Learnings Oleg Kravtsov Lead Developer, Tuxera	Pending Speaker Confirmation{C}
2:00- 2:50	Bridging the Gap Between NVMe SSD Performance and Scale Out Software Anjaneya Chagam Principal Engineer, Intel	When Will Self-Encrypting Drives Predominate? Tom Coughlin President,, Coughlin Associates Walt Hubis President, Hubis Consulting	Accelerating OLTP performance with NVMe SSDs Veronica Lagrange Staff Engineer, Samsung	Sailing in Uncharted Waters. A Story of Implementing Apple MacOS X Extensions for SMB2 in EMC Isilon OneFS Server Rafal Szczesniak Principal Software Engineer, EMC	Hyperscaler Storage Mark Carlson Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba
2:50-3:05	Break
3:05-3:55	Ceph Performance Benchmarking with CBT Logan Blyth Software Developer, Aquari, a division of Concurrent	Active Directory Client Scaling Challenges Mark VanHeyningen Principal Software Engineer, Isilon/EMC	An Examination of Storage Workloads Eden Kim CEO, Calypso Testers	Building a Highly Scalable and Performant SMB Protocol Server Sunu Engineer CTO, Ryussi Technologies Juwal Bhambani VP Engineering, Ryussi Technologies	Standards for Improving SSD Performance and Endurance Bill Martin Principal Engineer Storage Standards, Samsung
4:05- 4:55	SPDK - Building Blocks for Scalable, High Performance Storage Applications Benjamin Walker Software Engineer, Intel Corporation	Multi-vendor Key Management – Does It Actually Work? Tim Hudson CTO, Cryptsoft	Analysis of SSD health and Prediction of SSD life Dr. M. K. Jibbe Technical Director, NetApp Bernard Chan NetApp	Samba and NFS Integration Steven French Principal Systems Engineer Protocols, PrimaryData Corp	Open Storage Platform Delivers Hyper-scale Benefits for the Enterprise Eric Slack Sr. Analyst, Evaluator Group
5:05-5:55	Introducing the EDA Workload for the SPEC SFS® Benchmark Nick Principe Principal Software Engineer, EMC Jignesh Bhadaliya CTO for EDA, EMC	Storage Architecture	Breaking Through Performance and Scale Out Barriers - A Storage Solution for Today's Hot Scale Out Applications Bob Hansen V.P. Systems Architecture, Apeiron Data Systems	Panel Discussion of SMB3 POSIX Protocol Extensions Steven French Principal Systems Engineer Protocols, PrimaryData Corp/Samba Team Jeremy Allison Samba Team, Google	Pending Speaker Confirmation{C}
5:05-5:55		An Enhanced I/O Model for Modern Storage Devices Martin Petersen Architect, Oracle			Pending Speaker Confirmation{C}
	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, contact Arnold Jones at arnold.jones@snia.org

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Thursday, September 22, 2016
7:30- 8:30	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Performance	Storage Architecture	/etc	Capacity Optimization
8:30-9:20	Reducing Replication Bandwidth for Distributed Document-oriented Databases Sudipta Sengupta Principal Research Scientist, Microsoft	Corporate/Open Source Community Relationships: The OpenZFS Example Michael Dexter Senior Analyst, iXsystems	Pending Speaker Confirmation{C}	Pending Speaker Confirmation{C}
9:30-10:20	Performance Analysis of the Peer Fusion File System (PFFS) Richard Levy CEO and President, Peer Fusion	Your Cache is Overdue a Revolution: MRCs for Cache Performance and Isolation Irfan Ahmad CTO, CloudPhysics	Storage as an IoT Device Walt Hubis Principal, Hubis Technical Associates Tom Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates	Optimize Linux for In-line Deduplication and Compression Frank Zhao Software Architect CTO Office, EMC Kevin Xu Software Architect, EMC
10:20-10:35	Break
10:35-11:25	Green	Snapshotting Eventually Consistent Scale-out Storage: The Pitfalls and Solutions Alex Aizman CTO & Founder, Nexenta Systems	Using Design Thinking to Continuously Improve the Customer Experience Kevin Schultz Experience Designer, IBM Camillo Sassano Industrial Designer, IBM	Smashing Bits: Comparing Data Compression Techniques in Storage Juan Deaton Research Engineer and Scientist, AHA
10:35-11:25	Using SPEC SFS with the SNIA Emerald Program for EPA Energy Star Data Center Storage Program Vernon Miller Senior Software Engineer, IBM Nick Principe Principal Software Engineer, EMC
11:35-12:25	Environmental Conditions and Disk Reliability in Free-cooled Datacenters Speaker TBA	storhaug: High-Availability Storage for Linux Jose Rivera Software Engineer, Red Hat/Samba Team	Early Developer Experiences with New Windows Nano Server as Embedded Enterprise Storage Appliance Platform OS Terry Spear President & CTO, IOLogix	Accelerate Finger Printing in Data Deduplication Xiaodong Liu Storage software engineer, Intel Asia R&D Qihua Dai Engineering Manager, Intel Asia R&D
12:25	Sessions Conclude

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Birds of a Feather Sessions

If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, contact Arnold Jones at arnold.jones@snia.org